Sfc

hi there , i need to run sfc on this machine , but am having problems.

the machine is a toshiba l/top with a (crap) external USB 1.1 cd-rom .

the cd rom expired several months ago (and i hav,nt got access to another)

the last time i needed to do a full reinstall , i used a 2.5-3.5 adaptor , and copied the i386 dir over , and ran winnit , for the installation of (most) proggys i use a 256m usb pen (and copy the disks on my main computer to the pendrive)

now when i try to run sfc , it asks for the xp disk ?????????


i have looked in regedit for install paths , and changed 3 from c:/windows/system32 to c:/i386 ,,,,,,


am i missing one of them?

any ideas ??????


cheers alan

I think it wants more than just the cabs, but what I am not sure. Copy the rest of the xp cd over?

cheers bev , but thats about another 400meg , and where do i put them? (dont be rude) ,,,,

on an 9x setup , if u loaded from c:/xxxx ,,,,then if u wanted anything it got it from there .

the i386 dir has the following sub dirs

asms
compdat
drw
lang
sys32 (which all the install paths were looking at ...but unfortunatly c:/windows/sys32 ,,,,,,,,,,maybe a clue there ?????)
win98mig
win98upg
winntupg


am now gonna try to change the install paths in the reg to read c:/i386/system32 ,,,, and see if that does it

anyone else care to help on this one ,,,,coz its gonna be a **** to reconfig as its a ntfs setup , and the main unit upstairs has perposly been left as fat 32.


cheers alan

OK I FIKED IT!!!!!!


d/loaded a proggy called system sentry from http://www.easydesksoftware.com/

when i ran it , it said my files were at c:/windoz/options/cabs/

NO SUCH FOLDER ON XP (to my knolage) , so i simply backspaced to c:/i386 ,,,,


and it altered reg setting ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and SFC Bloody well works now ,,,,

now delete the freeware proggy,

I,m now a happy chappy

freddy

We have an opposite issue in which SFC flags a file that is the wrong version, even though the actual version matches the version is THINKS it should have.

Disabling SFC has become a nightmare. I've done all the usual regstry hacks and it still runs. If you know any other way to severely cripple it, please let me know!

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Originally Posted by dfilas

Disabling SFC has become a nightmare. I've done all the usual regstry hacks and it still runs. If you know any other way to severely cripple it, please let me know!

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If you mean stop sfc running at boot ... This'll do it !