SP2 - something odd after applying SP2???

[Steven Henson]

I installed XP SP2 on my HP laptop. The install went fine except I was tight on
space so afterwards I decided to compress the drive (I was already using NTFS
format).

This seemed to be going fine until suddenly I was informed that a whole load of
system files were "not the originals.....so to speak" and it offered me the
choice of either ignoring the "error", trying again or inserting the
installation CD to replace these files.

Surely this must be a defect in SP2????

Comments appreciated.





Steven

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Steven;
More likely something went wrong during compression.
Can you uncompress?

Compressing everything is usually not a good idea since it will take
time to uncompress data before it can be used.
The performance hit can be significant when you take into account all
the Windows XP files being uncompressed then compressed each and every
time they are accessed.

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>I installed XP SP2 on my HP laptop. The install went fine except I
>was tight on space so afterwards I decided to compress the drive (I
>was already using NTFS format).
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> This seemed to be going fine until suddenly I was informed that a
> whole load of system files were "not the originals.....so to speak"
> and it offered me the choice of either ignoring the "error", trying
> again or inserting the installation CD to replace these files.
>
> Surely this must be a defect in SP2????
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> Comments appreciated.
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> Steven

[David Candy]

If you compress every file your computer won't boot. Any file writing =
causes XP to attempt to replace the file.

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[Steven Henson]

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
> Steven;
> More likely something went wrong during compression.
> Can you uncompress?
>
> Compressing everything is usually not a good idea since it will take
> time to uncompress data before it can be used.
> The performance hit can be significant when you take into account all
> the Windows XP files being uncompressed then compressed each and every
> time they are accessed.
>
Thanks for your reply.

The machine is running flawlessly - I simply chose the "Ignore" option guessing
that somehow, wherever windows keeps this information, it had not picked up on
the fact that SP2 had replace SP1 system files.

There was nothing in the event log after the compression.

I need to keep it compressed as I am too low on disk space.

Regards,



Steven