SFC asks for CD always

[George Hester]

No I don't think that can happen. I am looking at the insides of SP3 for
Windows 2000. It has the same structure. Everything under i386. Then
under that the two folders mention in your post new and ip among others.
From what I can tell there will be no conflict here. I think the reason why
you copy over the files in ip and new is because the installation in the
registry the ServicePackSourcePath is one above i386. So if you installed
from CD-ROM off H drive say and the only folder on that CD-ROM were i386
then this reg entry will be H:\. The other reg value that needs to be
looked at is Installation Sources. In this case you would have H:\i386.
Since Microsoft does not mention a change to this value (in this 274215
Knowledge Base article anyway) I believe theirs is another way. I suspect
if you make a change to Installation Sources add the REG_MULTI_SZ value
H:\i386 then the copy of the files in ip and new would not be necessary.

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George Hester
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Dear George, my question is, if I do the subdirectory copies that
solved my problem, am I doing wrong? In other words, what happens if I
replace a file in the \I386 subdirectory of the service pack with
another file with the same name but different, from the \I386\ip
subdirectory? Can that be happen?

Hetre is a little more information on this. Although the article says it
applies to Windows 2000, I believe it applies to Windows XP as well file
names changed appropriately.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274215

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!