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Thanks to Charlie's tip about where to find the AMD64 version of the install
for the Recovery Console on the XP x64 install disk (run winnt32 /cmdcons
from \AMD64) earlier in the week I attempted to install the RC.

Firstly I noticed that the setup tries to connect to MS for Dynamic Update,
but despite a working internet connection reports it can't make contact.
Don't know if this is supposed to succeed.

Anyway toward the end of the install you might get a message about 'being
unable to copy a file because it is in use'). If that file is one of the
below it's a Virtual CD-ROM driver that's not needed by the RC and you can
safely 'Skip' the file and continue on.

dtscsi.sys (Daemon Tools virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
vaxscsi.sys (Alcohol's virtual CD/DVDROM driver)

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Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
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Mea culpa, bad advice I am afraid.

This works if you're running Alcohol's CD/DVD ROM driver, but not Daemon
Tools, who appear to load and lock the driver file even for readers. You'll
get a 'dtscsi.sys' file is corrupted (i.e. missing).

Possible solutions:
1. Uninstall Daemon tools, install cmdcons, reinstall
2. (For the brave) Open Device Manager. Select 'SCSI and RAID controllers'.
You should see a SCSI and RAID controller. Verify it's the dtscsi one by
selecting the 'Details' Tab and selecting 'Service' from the property
dropdown. If it says 'dtscsi' in the value field you know this is the one
you want to disable. Close the prop window, right click on it and click
disable. You can now copy the driver file from
\windows\system32\driver\dtscsi.sys to \cmdcons (hidden) which should fix
your problem. Re-enable the virtual scsi driver after copying.

Sorry for the confusion.

Simon.

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Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
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"Simon Meacham" <> wrote in message
news:eJR$...
> Thanks to Charlie's tip about where to find the AMD64 version of the
> install for the Recovery Console on the XP x64 install disk (run winnt32
> /cmdcons from \AMD64) earlier in the week I attempted to install the RC.
>
> Firstly I noticed that the setup tries to connect to MS for Dynamic
> Update, but despite a working internet connection reports it can't make
> contact. Don't know if this is supposed to succeed.
>
> Anyway toward the end of the install you might get a message about 'being
> unable to copy a file because it is in use'). If that file is one of the
> below it's a Virtual CD-ROM driver that's not needed by the RC and you can
> safely 'Skip' the file and continue on.
>
> dtscsi.sys (Daemon Tools virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
> vaxscsi.sys (Alcohol's virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
>
> ______________________________________________
> Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
> 64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
> For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
> ______________________________________________
>
>

I am reliably informed the Alchohol driver does this too (VaxSCSI), despite
my earlier comment. I apparently doesn't copy the driver either. Both lead
to zero length files of the same driver name in cmdcons.

For Alcohol, follow the same steps below. If you choose not to
uninstall/reinstall this time the SCSI driver is helpfully named 'VaxSCSI'
so you don't have to check the service property field to verify it's the
correct one to disable for the copy.

Again - sorry for the confusion.

______________________________________________
Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
______________________________________________

"Simon Meacham" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Mea culpa, bad advice I am afraid.
>
> This works if you're running Alcohol's CD/DVD ROM driver, but not Daemon
> Tools, who appear to load and lock the driver file even for readers.
> You'll get a 'dtscsi.sys' file is corrupted (i.e. missing).
>
> Possible solutions:
> 1. Uninstall Daemon tools, install cmdcons, reinstall
> 2. (For the brave) Open Device Manager. Select 'SCSI and RAID
> controllers'. You should see a SCSI and RAID controller. Verify it's the
> dtscsi one by selecting the 'Details' Tab and selecting 'Service' from the
> property dropdown. If it says 'dtscsi' in the value field you know this is
> the one you want to disable. Close the prop window, right click on it and
> click disable. You can now copy the driver file from
> \windows\system32\driver\dtscsi.sys to \cmdcons (hidden) which should fix
> your problem. Re-enable the virtual scsi driver after copying.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Simon.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________
> Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
> 64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
> For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
> ______________________________________________
>
> "Simon Meacham" <> wrote in message
> news:eJR$...
>> Thanks to Charlie's tip about where to find the AMD64 version of the
>> install for the Recovery Console on the XP x64 install disk (run winnt32
>> /cmdcons from \AMD64) earlier in the week I attempted to install the RC.
>>
>> Firstly I noticed that the setup tries to connect to MS for Dynamic
>> Update, but despite a working internet connection reports it can't make
>> contact. Don't know if this is supposed to succeed.
>>
>> Anyway toward the end of the install you might get a message about 'being
>> unable to copy a file because it is in use'). If that file is one of the
>> below it's a Virtual CD-ROM driver that's not needed by the RC and you
>> can safely 'Skip' the file and continue on.
>>
>> dtscsi.sys (Daemon Tools virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
>> vaxscsi.sys (Alcohol's virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
>> 64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
>> For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>>
>
>

You can probably get around this by stopping the daemon tools, setting it to
not "autostart", and then booting. But it's easy enough to uninstall and
reinstall.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


Simon Meacham wrote:
> I am reliably informed the Alchohol driver does this too (VaxSCSI),
> despite my earlier comment. I apparently doesn't copy the driver either.
> Both lead to zero length files of the same driver name in cmdcons.
>
> For Alcohol, follow the same steps below. If you choose not to
> uninstall/reinstall this time the SCSI driver is helpfully named 'VaxSCSI'
> so you don't have to check the service property field to verify it's the
> correct one to disable for the copy.
>
> Again - sorry for the confusion.
>
> ______________________________________________
> Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
> 64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
> For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
> ______________________________________________
>
> "Simon Meacham" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Mea culpa, bad advice I am afraid.
>>
>> This works if you're running Alcohol's CD/DVD ROM driver, but not Daemon
>> Tools, who appear to load and lock the driver file even for readers.
>> You'll get a 'dtscsi.sys' file is corrupted (i.e. missing).
>>
>> Possible solutions:
>> 1. Uninstall Daemon tools, install cmdcons, reinstall
>> 2. (For the brave) Open Device Manager. Select 'SCSI and RAID
>> controllers'. You should see a SCSI and RAID controller. Verify it's the
>> dtscsi one by selecting the 'Details' Tab and selecting 'Service' from
>> the property dropdown. If it says 'dtscsi' in the value field you know
>> this is the one you want to disable. Close the prop window, right click
>> on it and click disable. You can now copy the driver file from
>> \windows\system32\driver\dtscsi.sys to \cmdcons (hidden) which should fix
>> your problem. Re-enable the virtual scsi driver after copying.
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>> --
>> ______________________________________________
>> Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
>> 64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
>> For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> "Simon Meacham" <> wrote in
>> message news:eJR$...
>>> Thanks to Charlie's tip about where to find the AMD64 version of the
>>> install for the Recovery Console on the XP x64 install disk (run winnt32
>>> /cmdcons from \AMD64) earlier in the week I attempted to install the RC.
>>>
>>> Firstly I noticed that the setup tries to connect to MS for Dynamic
>>> Update, but despite a working internet connection reports it can't make
>>> contact. Don't know if this is supposed to succeed.
>>>
>>> Anyway toward the end of the install you might get a message about
>>> 'being unable to copy a file because it is in use'). If that file is
>>> one of the below it's a Virtual CD-ROM driver that's not needed by the
>>> RC and you can safely 'Skip' the file and continue on.
>>>
>>> dtscsi.sys (Daemon Tools virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
>>> vaxscsi.sys (Alcohol's virtual CD/DVDROM driver)
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> Simon Meacham, MCP MBCS
>>> 64 bit blog @ http://lxivdigiti.wordpress.com
>>> For email: Remove ".nospam" from end of address.
>>> ______________________________________________