File Check Keeps Saying 30 Bad Files

First of all, I may have made a little boo-boo by renaming ROM\0 to force an early update. I meant to rename one file, but it was a folder. Also I have to say from the start that I am still using Windows 7, and FFXI ran just fine a few months ago during the last Return to Vanadiel, and I don't see any signs in the forums that Windows 7 suddenly stopped working.

After running the file check to get up to date, when I start the game, it creates the big FFXI game window and crashes.

And every time I run file check now, it says the same 30 files are bad. No, it's not a dying hard drive, this is a lightly used SSD and it's doing this even when the "bad" files are moved away but not deleted. I saved two generations of bad File Repair of ROM\0 and the CRC32 is the same on all of them.

I could accept that the game somehow crashed because of Windows 7. I can't accept that these specific files won't repair properly because of Windows 7.

I also tried downloading a zip of the data files from a few months ago. The updater seemed to run fine, but the same files were broken. (Apparently it was just the changed files from that update, none of which were the ones in the list.)

Can someone try running the file check, but do NOT let it fix your files? I guess that could tell whether it's the master file list that is broken or if I got bad files from the downloader.

ROM\0\108.DAT
ROM\0\121.DAT
ROM\0\122.DAT
ROM\0\125.DAT
ROM\0\126.DAT
ROM\0\127.DAT
ROM\0\14.DAT
ROM\0\21.DAT
ROM\0\24.DAT
ROM\0\25.DAT
ROM\0\26.DAT
ROM\0\28.DAT
ROM\0\3.DAT
ROM\0\40.DAT
ROM\0\56.DAT
ROM\0\58.DAT
ROM\0\61.DAT
ROM\0\62.DAT
ROM\0\64.DAT
ROM\0\73.DAT
ROM\0\74.DAT
ROM\0\76.DAT
ROM\0\77.DAT
ROM\0\79.DAT
ROM\0\89.DAT
ROM\0\92.DAT
ROM\0\97.DAT
ROM\10\90.DAT
sound\win\se\se020\se020007.spw
sound\win\se\se029\se029092.spw

The full file check which you start from the ffxi config not from pol?

No, because you can't run the update unless you have an active FFXI sub, and I've been doing this before Return to Vanadiel opens up. This was all done using the check files in pol.

The ffxi config one just forces an update check on the next launch of the game. I just now set it and ran it, and then it still crashed. Doing file check again shows the same 30 bad files.

Windower or vanilla ffxi?

On the chance that they were old, I looked in a full folder copy of the data files that I made years ago. All of them are files that haven't been touched by SE in over 15 years. Good thing that I was smart (and lazy) enough to leave those old files lying around. AND I'M IN.

Seems like File Repair isn't as reliable as it should be.

I'm gonna make a backup of the current files just in case. I would recommend all of you out there make a backup every now and then too, just in case.