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