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re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 11:12 am
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Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted)


Thanks Steve, that works. I'm sure I tried that yesterday as well but perhaps the I386 folder was indeed corrupted somehow. I copied it over again using XCOPY from a command prompt, applied this .reg file and now I can run sfc /scannow without using the XP CD.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup]

"SourcePath"="C:\\"
"ServicePackSourcePath"="C:\\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

"SourcePath"="C:\\"



Written in response to:
re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Steve: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 8:17 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Steve: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 12:19 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Rich Kurtz: Tue, May 29, 2007, 7:26 am)
-re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Steve: Tue, May 29, 2007, 7:44 am)
-re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Rich Kurtz: Tue, May 29, 2007, 6:27 pm)
-re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Steve: Tue, May 29, 2007, 8:17 pm)
-re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Rich Kurtz: Wed, May 30, 2007, 11:12 am)
-re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Steve: Wed, May 30, 2007, 12:19 pm)
*re: Run sfc /scannow from C:\I386 directory (Rich Kurtz: Wed, May 30, 2007, 6:19 pm)
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