SFC /scannow

[Jorge Bravo]

I lost (temporarily) IE, so I decided to do sfc /scannow. Soon after it
started it asked for the disk for XP Professional SP3. Problem is that my
system is XP Home and not Porfessional. Wen I inserted the Toshiba Recovery
Disk in he drive, SFC told me it was the wrong one...

Anyone knows what is going on? Is this a common problem?

Thank you

 

[R. McCarty]

When XP is originally installed there is a Registry Key that indicates
whether the source media was a CD-ROM. There is a hierarchy to
where XP searches when SFC is called. Depending on which level
Service Pack is applied, XP searches the \DllCache folder and the
\ServicePackFiles. Because of the CD-ROM install key value XP
will call for the CD-ROM even though it doesn't contain the latest
Service Pack modules. This is because it is trying to reach the i386
folder which is the original source point. Unless your vendor put the
\i386 folder on the hard drive it's looking for a non-existent folder.

Doing an SFC /Scannow isn't really a viable diagnostic tool. Windows
File Protection will automatically replace any "monitored" files that
are renamed/deleted or moved without any user action . Really all
you're doing is re-populating the \DllCache folder.

 

[Jorge Bravo]

Thanks

When XP is originally installed there is a Registry Key that indicates
whether the source media was a CD-ROM. There is a hierarchy to
where XP searches when SFC is called. Depending on which level
Service Pack is applied, XP searches the \DllCache folder and the
\ServicePackFiles. Because of the CD-ROM install key value XP
will call for the CD-ROM even though it doesn't contain the latest
Service Pack modules. This is because it is trying to reach the i386
folder which is the original source point. Unless your vendor put the
\i386 folder on the hard drive it's looking for a non-existent folder.

Doing an SFC /Scannow isn't really a viable diagnostic tool. Windows
File Protection will automatically replace any "monitored" files that
are renamed/deleted or moved without any user action . Really all
you're doing is re-populating the \DllCache folder.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I lost (temporarily) IE, so I decided to do sfc /scannow. Soon after it
started it asked for the disk for XP Professional SP3. Problem is that my
system is XP Home and not Porfessional. Wen I inserted the Toshiba
Recovery Disk in he drive, SFC told me it was the wrong one...

Anyone knows what is going on? Is this a common problem?

Thank you

If your Toshiba Recovery Disk does an "image restore", it can't be used for
sfc (or, generally, a repair install). If you insert the CD and it
doesn't have an /i386 folder, it won't work. Instead, for sfc, you would
find the i386 folder on your system and point sfc there.

However, this may not help you fix IE, just as a repair install might not.
sfc deals with the basic files, not with the registry, and if the problem is
in the registry, as is often the case - it won't be addressed at all.

HTH
-pk

 

[Carrie]

I lost (temporarily) IE, so I decided to do sfc /scannow. Soon after it
started it asked for the disk for XP Professional SP3. Problem is that my
system is XP Home and not Porfessional. Wen I inserted the Toshiba
Recovery Disk in he drive, SFC told me it was the wrong one...

Anyone knows what is going on? Is this a common problem?

Thank you

This happens for me, too.
I don't have SP3 yet but sfc/scannow (which some have recommended I do for
various reasons) won't work. It wants the cd which I don't have.
I had directions for going into the reg and changing the path to look in
the i386 files instead, but when I followed it, the enteries that were
supposed to be there (to change) weren't there.

 

[Kelly]

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

In the right pane, double click SourcePath and change it to: C:\

Save, reboot and then try sfc again.

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