Re: Sfc /scannow

John,

Since I did not have a slipstreamed SP2 CD, I did not try sfc /scannow when
I had problems with HDs two weeks ago.
Upon reading your post, I made a slipstreamed CD yesterday by following Paul
Thurrott's instruction.
I also created slipstreamed SP2 CD for my Dell computer (for home use).
Thanks again for the suggestion about slipstream.

Regards,

Roman




"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Gerry;

If you don't have a slipstreamed cd or if you don't have one at all (you
only have a service partition or a "restoration" cd) you can just change
the "SourcePath" in the registry and change the location of files so that
SFC will look in the i386 folder instead of the cd.

http://www.pchomecall.org.uk/support/sfc.htm

Regards;

John

Gerry wrote:

Roman

Before you move on regarding System File Checker. A lot of problems
resolve down to problematic drivers or memory. Where this is the case you
often do not know which it is so you work through the easier solutions.
If your Window XP CD contains the SP2 update using System File Checker is
an easy task. It's not easy if your original Windows XP CD is pre SP2 as
you need a slipstreamed CD to run System File Checker. A slipstreamed CD
is a CD where the contents of the original XP CD and the SP2 update have
been merged.




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