Hi Arno,
Let me start over from the beginning. Forget that I changed harddrives
or copied files, because this what I am describing has nothing to do
with the harddrive. It is just how windows is treating short file names
on my computer, not just on the C: drive, but the ram drive, the zip
drive, the compact flash drive and the CD burner.
What it is doing is making the short name the first 8 letters of the
long name. Not with a tilde and a "1" like it is supposed to do. If
there is a second filename the same then is uses "~1" for it (not a "~2"
like it's supposed to do).
Read the above paragraph several times, because that's what I have wrote
in every post and nobody seems to get it.
Other than that the computer is working perfectly .. long names and
short ... I just have to use the new format in DOS, that's all. And as
for the registry, you probably know that the paths in the registry are
mostly in short names, they're just not in my new format short names
because they were made before the computer switched over to this new way
of producing short names.
Study this dos list below which is part of program files and compare it
to your computer.
As for the fact that I copied the files in DOS -- that has nothing to do
with it because all the files were short names anyway. There was only a
few that I had to rename to their long names, mostly directories.
Adios,
Shanda
INTERNET <DIR> 01-03-04 8:07p Internet Explorer
IOMEGA <DIR> 01-03-04 8:08p Iomega
IRFANVIE <DIR> 01-03-0410:40a IrfanView
JPEGWIZA <DIR> 01-03-04 8:09p jpegwizard
LEADTECH <DIR> 01-03-04 8:01p LEAD Technologies, Inc
MABRYSOF <DIR> 01-03-04 8:09p Mabry Software
MGI <DIR> 01-03-04 8:07p MGI
MICROSOF <DIR> 01-03-04 8:08p Microsoft Windows Script
MICROS~1 <DIR> 01-03-04 8:08p Microsoft Script Debugger
MIDI2WAV <DIR> 01-03-04 8:08p Midi2Wav Recorder
MSMQ <DIR> 01-03-04 8:07p MSMQ
NORTONAN <DIR> 01-03-04 8:07p Norton AntiVirus
OUTLOOKE <DIR> 01-03-04 8:07p Outlook Express
PAINTSHO <DIR> 01-03-04 8:08p Paint Shop Pro 5
"Arno Wagner" <me.TakeThisOut@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:c2a6d2$1qo9mb$1@ID-2964.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Previously Shanda <Shand.TakeThisOut@blueriver.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Maybe I didn't explain it right. What I'm saying is that the
computer is
> > now working in the new format. It can't find anything that has a
path in
> > the old format.
>
> Can you create files with long names?
>
> > For instance if I type C:\PROGRA~1 on the windows run line I get an
> > error, likewise if I type CD C:\PROGRA~1 in the dos box. But if I
type
> > C:\PROGRAF it works ok.
>
> Some basics:
>
> PROGRA~1 is a long filename displayed by an OS that is not
> long-filename aware or where support for long filenames is off. The
> long filename is on disk in a special area and can be used with a
> suitably new version of DOS/Windows or Linux when mounted as "vfat".
> Older OS versions or Linux when mounted as "fat" will display it
> with the '~'.
>
> PROGRAF is a complete filename. There is no long version on disk!
> It will look like this, regardless of the OS and support for long
> filenames.
>
> > Therefore it can't load any of the programs that have "~" in the
path in
> > the registry.
>
> Yes, that would be an effect.
>
> > Shanda
>
> > p.s. What I did was take the old harddrive out and put it in another
> > computer that needed a harddrive. Put the new harddrive in and
formatted
> > it. Now I connected the two computers via LPT1 and used the program
> > Interlink in DOS to xcopy all the files.
>
> It looks like you either used a DOS version that cannot deal with
> long filenames or forgot to tell xcopy to copy long filenames
> correctly. If this is the case, all names where shortened when
> you copied the files and the long names are not on the new disk.
>
> Some software might still work with the now shortened names. In
> that case you can change all references (e.g. registry) to the
> new short names.
>
> This problem is a pretty nasty pittfall. The two options to repair
> it are manual renaming (almost impossible) and copying them again
> from the source, this time with the long names.
>
> Regards,
> Arno
>
>
> > "Arno Wagner" <me.TakeThisOut@privacy.net> wrote in message
> > news:c273de$1q5pqo$3@ID-2964.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >> Previously Shanda <Shand.TakeThisOut@blueriver.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >>
> >> > It says DRIVE C: FAT32 whatever that means. So I guess I have to
go
> > all
> >> > through the registry and change all the paths to this new format.
> > Right?
> >>
> >> > Shanda
> >>
> >>
> >> No, Windows is sloppy. It will use FAT as VFAT. The problem likely
was
> >> in the copying. How did you copy the files?
> >>
> >> Arno
> >>
> >> > "Arno Wagner" <me.TakeThisOut@privacy.net> wrote in message news:c265m2
> >> > :
> >> > :
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