How Do You Force Windows 2000 SP4 to Re-install

[Will]

I have a server on which many of the System32 DLLs have become corrupt. I
want to re-install SP4 to get back to a known baseline, but the SP4 setup is
saying it is already installed and quits without copying over files. How
can I force the SP4 install to copy over all of its files in spite of the
system's supposed status?

 

[dc]

Hi,

One way is to use System File Check
Start
Run...
<type> SFC /scannow
(will need your CD)
afterward reinstall your SP4
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/default.asp
Then reinstall your hotpatches

don



I have a server on which many of the System32 DLLs have become corrupt.
I
want to re-install SP4 to get back to a known baseline, but the SP4
setup is
saying it is already installed and quits without copying over files.
How
can I force the SP4 install to copy over all of its files in spite of
the
system's supposed status?

 

[Will]

I already did that sequence, and at the point I try to re-install SP4 I get
the message it is already installed.

My question was how do I force it to re-install, even if it thinks it is
already installed?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Choose the network download.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/default.asp

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:
|I already did that sequence, and at the point I try to re-install SP4 I get
| the message it is already installed.
|
| My question was how do I force it to re-install, even if it thinks it is
| already installed?
|
| --
| Will
| Internet: westes AT earthbroadcast.com
|
|
| | > One way is to use System File Check
| > Start
| > Run...
| > <type> SFC /scannow
| > (will need your CD)
| > afterward reinstall your SP4
| > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/default.asp
| > Then reinstall your hotpatches
| >
| > don
|
|

 

[lee]

I have a server on which many of the System32 DLLs have become corrupt. I
want to re-install SP4 to get back to a known baseline, but the SP4 setup is
saying it is already installed and quits without copying over files. How
can I force the SP4 install to copy over all of its files in spite of the
system's supposed status?

Why can't you go to add/remove programs from the control panel and
uninstall SP4? I've done that before and it worked when trouble shooting
problem workstations.

 

[Will]

The CD version of SP4 does not appear to put any item into the Add/Remove
Programs list.

 

[wayfarrer]

This may help:

Service Pack 4 Permits You to Remove the Service Pack by Using the Recovery
Console
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825062

 

[George Hester]

That's weird. If SP4 was installed it should install again. You got something else going on.

 

[George Hester]

You chose not to back up the system before installing SP4. You would have to do that (and lose a lot of space) to have SP4 in Add\Remove.