From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcSxw-0002HH-1r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:52:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcSxt-0002FR-Af for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:52:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcSxt-0002FH-83 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:52:17 -0400 Received: from [81.209.184.159] (helo=dd2718.kasserver.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcSwV-0005Xr-NC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:50:51 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.7] (dsl-082-082-142-042.arcor-ip.net [82.82.142.42]) by dd2718.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8D4BC58A for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:48:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40D72010.7080906@fabianowski.de> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:51:12 +0200 From: Bartosz Fabianowski MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Win2k-SP3 References: <20040621130525.68575.qmail@web60209.mail.yahoo.com> <40D6E942.90500@wasp.net.au> In-Reply-To: <40D6E942.90500@wasp.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org I currently don't have Windows installed so I can't try this myself. But a little bit of googling suggests that the log files you are seeing are database checkpoint files. It seems that Exchange uses this database format and comes with some utilities that allow you to peek into the files. However, Windows 2000 also uses them for Active Directory and seems to have some limited tools on board as well. The following article gives a bit of details: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid7_gci803195,00.html According to the article, you might want to try the NTDSUTIL utility and see what you can get. Microsoft also gives some information on how to use it: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/distsys/part5/dsgappc.mspx Either way, the hundreds of checkpoints indicate that something is going wrong with some database during installation. By the way, is it just me or are the files actually empty (besides the header of course)? They compress so well because they are just full of zero bytes. - Bartosz