sfc troubles

[Johnny Grub]

I want to use sfc to can repair windows.

I tried yesterday but found the following problem.

Last month I installed a new additional hard disk and also a cd-rw. Now the
drive letters are changed.

Sfc command do not find the path to the cd-rom. So I can not use it.

Please advice.



Thanks in advance.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I want to use sfc to can repair windows.

I tried yesterday but found the following problem.

Last month I installed a new additional hard disk and also a cd-rw. Now the
drive letters are changed.

Sfc command do not find the path to the cd-rom. So I can not use it.

Please advice.



Thanks in advance.

Which drive letters are changed? The drive letter of the system drive?

 

[Johnny Grub]

The cd-rom actually it is ( X

Which drive letters are changed? The drive letter of the system drive?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

The CD ROM's drive letter is irrelevant for sfc.exe. This
program is supposed to reside in c:\windows\system32.
Furthermore, your path is must include c:\windows\system32.
Do this:

- Click Start / Run
- Type cmd {OK}
- Type these commands:
path > c:\test.txt
set system >> c:\test.txt
dir /s "%SystemRoot%\sf*.*" >> c:\test.txt
notepad c:\test.txt

Now cut and paste the text you see into your reply.

 

[Peter]

You could probably get around that by copying your i386 folder to your C:
drive:

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

 

[MAP]

I want to use sfc to can repair windows.

I tried yesterday but found the following problem.

Last month I installed a new additional hard disk and also a cd-rw.
Now the drive letters are changed.

Sfc command do not find the path to the cd-rom. So I can not use it.

Please advice.



Thanks in advance.

Step #2 at the link below will tell you how to change the "path" sfc looks
for.
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

 

[Rock]

I want to use sfc to can repair windows.

I tried yesterday but found the following problem.

Last month I installed a new additional hard disk and also a cd-rw. Now the
drive letters are changed.

Sfc command do not find the path to the cd-rom. So I can not use it.

Please advice.



Thanks in advance.

Open the registry editor: Start | Run | Regedit | Ok. Navigate to this
key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

In the right pane modify the value: SourcePath to reflect the changed CD
drive letter. Right click on the value and choose Modify.

It's always best to backup the registry before making changes. A good
tool for this is ERUNT. See these links:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm

[ERUNT] - Direct download
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe

 

[Johnny Grub]

Thank you all of you.

 

[Johnny Grub]

I can see as follow:

PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Odbc\FILEMA~1;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
Volume in drive C is Win
Volume Serial Number is 7060-98B3

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\Help

04/08/2004 03:07 15,957 sfmmgr.hlp
1 File(s) 15,957 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\inf

04/08/2004 03:07 2,640 sffdisk.inf
22/07/2005 12:23 7,808 sffdisk.PNF
2 File(s) 10,448 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32

04/08/2004 03:07 5,120 sfc.dll
04/08/2004 03:07 9,728 sfc.exe
04/08/2004 03:07 1,580,544 sfcfiles.dll
04/08/2004 03:07 140,288 sfc_os.dll
04/08/2004 03:07 23,552 sfmapi.dll
5 File(s) 1,759,232 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache

04/08/2004 03:07 5,120 sfc.dll
04/08/2004 03:07 9,728 sfc.exe
04/08/2004 03:07 1,580,544 sfcfiles.dll
04/08/2004 03:07 140,288 sfc_os.dll
04/08/2004 03:07 11,136 sffdisk.sys
04/08/2004 03:07 10,240 sffp_sd.sys
04/08/2004 03:07 23,552 sfmapi.dll
7 File(s) 1,780,608 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers

04/08/2004 03:07 11,136 sffdisk.sys
04/08/2004 03:07 10,240 sffp_sd.sys
04/08/2004 03:07 11,392 sfloppy.sys
3 File(s) 32,768 bytes

Total Files Listed:
18 File(s) 3,599,013 bytes
0 Dir(s) 82,977,017,856 bytes free

 

[Rock]

Thank you all of you.

You're welcome.

 

[Rich Barry]

Johnny, you will get that message if you have installed Updates SP1 or
SP2. Those updates made significant changes to your system files that the
original WinXP CD is outdated. If this is not the case then maybe you can
pull the white power
connector to both the new hard drive and cd-rw temporarily. This will
revert to the older configuration and maybe the
path to the cd-rom will be found.

 

[bumtracks]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;222473
Registry Settings for Windows File Protection