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Trying to boot off the set of four boot floppies created off the Win2K CD the system reports that "file asc3350p.sys is corrupt". I have reformatted the floppies and recreated the boot floppiesa again but still get the same error. does anyone know where I could download the file? The only place I could find wants $10 US. what a ripoff!
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm has them if you have some corruption on yours.
You may also want to check out this site.......
Hope this helps.......
An alternative way of getting to Windows Setup is to boot up with a Win98 Startup floppy with CDROM support, then navigate to the i386 folder on the WinXP CD and run Winnt.exe. That will start the normal Windows Setup.
You can get a Win98 startup disk from the same site that 104456 linked to.
Hi Calpitor,I have that file on floppy 3 of my set of 4 2k ERD, don't know if my copy will work for you, if you like PM me with your Email and I will send it to you. About 16kb.
Should have mentioned you can make a single floppy to start an existing OS both 2k and XP. Take one formatted( Format A:/u ) floppy and from the existing OS copy Boot.ini , NTDetect.com and NTLDR to it.
This may sound like from out of left field..
But the error may have nothing to do with the file itself.. it could be a memory problem..
if the machine has more than 1 stick of memory .. remove the extras and see what happens..
Had a similar fault with win XP.. dis-similar memory types
just a thought..
Strangely enough after one last ditch effort and trying again I was able to get the system to boot off the disks, create the partitions and format the system. Everything looks pretty sweet so far. The things you'll go through for a family member. :confused: