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Old June 19th 04, 11:45 PM
mcalevy
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Default Reinstall hangs at setting up hardware

I am reinstalling ME on a machine that continued to
freeze after a couple of minutes even with a clean
install.

I am replacing the operating system, but it stops at the
screen setting up the hardware and any plug and play
devices you may have.

It took more than 15 minutes for it to set up the
hardware information database.

It has been on this phase of the install more than an
hour when it says it will finish in 15 minutes
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Old June 19th 04, 11:55 PM
Mike M
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Default Reinstall hangs at setting up hardware

Check your windows\inf folder (a hidden system folder and you will have to
enable the viewing of such files and folders in Explorer (Tools | Folder
Options | View and check "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide
protected operating system files") and look for large numbers of oem*.inf
files that are all 0 bytes in size. If you've got thousands of such files
this is the cause of your problem as you're probably at the limit of the
number of entries that can be entered in a FAT folder and therefore cannot add
any inf file associated with the update. Delete these 0 byte oem*.inf files.

Why has this happened? If you have Norton's System Doctor installed did you
perhaps forget to disable System Doctor before updating your system from the
Windows Update site? If you don't delete these files some software and most
hardware and driver installs will take a very long time to complete if they
complete at all.

For more details see the Symantec site:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...15010309&src=n and
also MS KB 281967 - "Computer Stops Responding (Hangs) During Setup,
Installing Updates, or Adding New Hardware"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281967). I would strongly recommend that
you contact Microsoft and mention 281967 and also 301540 and ask for a copy of
the new ifsmgr.vxd v4.90.3003. You will then either be sent the file or told
how and where to download a copy. There should be no charge for this call
other than for the cost of the phone call. Alternatively do yourself and your
PC a favour and dump System Doctor and any other crippleware you have
installed from the Symantec stable, none of which works well with Win Me.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



mcalevy wrote:

I am reinstalling ME on a machine that continued to
freeze after a couple of minutes even with a clean
install.

I am replacing the operating system, but it stops at the
screen setting up the hardware and any plug and play
devices you may have.

It took more than 15 minutes for it to set up the
hardware information database.

It has been on this phase of the install more than an
hour when it says it will finish in 15 minutes



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Old June 20th 04, 04:40 AM
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Default Reinstall hangs at setting up hardware

Yes, it definitely was the inf folder, I deleted 32k
files.

I just reinstalled MS word 2000 into works, it still
crashes. I got ERROR : 0E : 0197 : BFF8E64B

The inablility to open Word documents was the thing that
started this.

I also have an upgrade to IE 6.0 hanging out there that
will not complete. It says run IE6SETUP.exe to complete
it later, but it is lying, it doesn't work. Can this be
cleaned out? I can't download any other window updates
until this gets out of the way

b
-----Original Message-----
Check your windows\inf folder (a hidden system folder

and you will have to
enable the viewing of such files and folders in Explorer

(Tools | Folder
Options | View and check "Show hidden files and folders"

and uncheck "Hide
protected operating system files") and look for large

numbers of oem*.inf
files that are all 0 bytes in size. If you've got

thousands of such files
this is the cause of your problem as you're probably at

the limit of the
number of entries that can be entered in a FAT folder

and therefore cannot add
any inf file associated with the update. Delete these 0

byte oem*.inf files.

Why has this happened? If you have Norton's System

Doctor installed did you
perhaps forget to disable System Doctor before updating

your system from the
Windows Update site? If you don't delete these files

some software and most
hardware and driver installs will take a very long time

to complete if they
complete at all.

For more details see the Symantec site:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...sf/docid/20001

20915010309&src=n and
also MS KB 281967 - "Computer Stops Responding (Hangs)

During Setup,
Installing Updates, or Adding New Hardware"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281967). I would

strongly recommend that
you contact Microsoft and mention 281967 and also 301540

and ask for a copy of
the new ifsmgr.vxd v4.90.3003. You will then either be

sent the file or told
how and where to download a copy. There should be no

charge for this call
other than for the cost of the phone call.

Alternatively do yourself and your
PC a favour and dump System Doctor and any other

crippleware you have
installed from the Symantec stable, none of which works

well with Win Me.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



mcalevy wrote:

I am reinstalling ME on a machine that continued to
freeze after a couple of minutes even with a clean
install.

I am replacing the operating system, but it stops at

the
screen setting up the hardware and any plug and play
devices you may have.

It took more than 15 minutes for it to set up the
hardware information database.

It has been on this phase of the install more than an
hour when it says it will finish in 15 minutes



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Old June 20th 04, 08:42 AM
Noel Paton
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Default Reinstall hangs at setting up hardware

Reinstalling ME over itself (with IE6 previously installed) has caused
'Version Soup' in IE - look here for the cure
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/ReInIE.htm

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp

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...
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I also have an upgrade to IE 6.0 hanging out there that
will not complete. It says run IE6SETUP.exe to complete
it later, but it is lying, it doesn't work. Can this be
cleaned out? I can't download any other window updates
until this gets out of the way



 




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