Symbol Retriever trouble

[skywalker06]

hi
i have trouble using Symbol Retriever everything time it tries to translate after downloading the symbol file it says "error - translate" please help me i need those to translate to .NMS so i can break into softice and yes i have softice active

btw i copied the Symbol Retriever folder from the DS installion i had and uninstalled it and am trying to get Symbol Retriever to work with 4.05 which i have now

thanks in advance

[deroko]

download lates windows debugging tools and copy symsrv.dll in sice folder, there are 3 to be overwriten.

[Kayaker]

Presumably you're downloading the symbol files OK, that's a bit of a surprise because Symbol Retriever seems to require an updated symsrv.dll, which you can get from WinDbg.

You could try translating the pdb files manually with nmsym.exe from the command line.

Alternatively you could use Mostek's IDA2Sice and do it in a 2 step process.

[skywalker06]

yes i have replace the symsrv.dll file and i can download the symbol file its just symbol retriever having trouble converting them to nms format saying "error - translate"

i also tried using nmsym from the command line and its says "no debug information found"

[deroko]

I get that error for advapi32.dll but as I can load it's exports it doesn't bother me much

[disavowed]

Use symchk.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx#ERB