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I tried to do some of these things - I don't have a floppy from which to boot
(I made a boot disk at www.bootdisk.com, but when I booted with it, the
computer told me it was a non-system disk).
The wininit file I have opens with the Notepad application. The icon for it
is a notepad with a gear in the lower right corner.
I had this problem late last year and resolved it; now it's back though I
haven't done anything knowlingly to cause it.
James
"Mike M" wrote:
> The solution to the %1 %2 problem you saw is easy to fix and is often
> the result of having Symantec's LiveUpdate installed.
>
> First boot to DOS using a floppy and check whether you have a WININIT.INI
> file in your C:\WINDOWS folder. If present rename it to something like
> wininit.old and try booting again. It is also probable that you will have
> to repeat the last software install or update that you made. See MS
> KB283069 - "Error Message: Windows Could Not Upgrade the File %1 from %2
> %1: %2 (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=283069).
>
> If you can't find a wininit.ini file then I suspect your problem is due to
> the C:\_RESTORE\TEMP folder having around 64K files in it which is the
> limit (2**16) for the number of files that can be located in a folder
> using the FAT32 filing system. This then results in the "Cannot upgrade
> file %1 from %2.." message when booting. I suggest you try deleting the
> _RESTORE folder with the loss of any system restore checkpoints you might
> have (not that I think they are now usable) and see if that solves the
> problem. Delete the folder as follows:
> a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal Boot" from the menu
> when booting from a floppy but rather choose "Start computer with (or
> without) CD-ROM support" otherwise the ATTRIB command will not be
> available.
> b) At the DOS A:\> prompt, type:
>
> ATTRIB -H -S -R C:\_RESTORE
> and then
> REN C:\_RESTORE OLDREST
>
> c) Remove the floppy
> d) Reboot your PC
>
> Another problem is that the install/update you were doing will not have
> been completely installed so your system may still be unusable and the
> install/update will need to be repeated.
>
> e) Delete the folder C:\OLDREST
> f) Check that an automatic system restore checkpoint was created.
> g) Finally adjust the space allocated to the restore folder: System |
> Performance | File System | Hard Disk and adjust the restore slider to
> your preferred setting. A figure of 200MB is normally more than adequate
> for day to day use allowing perhaps a week of checkpoints to be available
> although increasing this to perhaps 400MB for a few days during periods of
> large installs such Microsoft Office is advisable.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>
> James Ascher <james_ascher@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > When I down load this update and restart my computer, I get the
> > message "Cannot update File %1 from File %2" several times. What do
> > you recommend?
> > James A.
>
>
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