Win2000Pro Installation Problem

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Hi!

For a few days ago I had a problem with the upgrade installing of
Win2000Pro EN with a SP2 CD.

During the installation procedure after some 20-30 minutes, I suddenly got an
copy error message on file AppSer~1.cl_ and just after that, one after one,
also on some 20-30 more similarly named files. The only way to get rid of
these error messages after several retries was to cancel them.

This probably also caused a miss of installing several Win2000Pro
sub-services, as an example, there were no export/import functions on
regedit.exe and Explorer seemed missing right-click functions etc.

So, what to do to get these *.cl_ etc. totally some 30 files to be copied
pertinently during the install? OK, look some 8 rows below!

I copied them to a floppy and renamed them just the same as they were, and
loaded them from the floppy during the install, but it didn't have any affect
.... neither a Repair install ... neither a sfc /scannow repair ...

I found some posts with Google regarding just this same problem on
Win2000Server version, but in this case I didn't have the problem with the
file naming with "_" instead of "~", so there wasn't anything corrective to
do with these advice.

The only way out of this problem I found was the slipstreaming of the SP2 CD
to a SP4 one, with the Bart's excellent procedure
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#w2k.


Have a nice adventure on this, with a happy end.


Best regards,

Pete V.
Helsinki, Finland