sfc disk problem
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by theymos
(5 messages posted)
I am experiencing this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897128
I have tried the solution in the article, but it didn't work. Now when I run sfc,
it says "please insert your XP Home CD" instead of "insert your XP Pro CD", but it
still doesn't recognize my CD. In the second part of the article, imf.inf doesn't
have any references to "professional", and so I didn't change anything there.
The CD is an OEM CD, but it's not used on the computer that the CD came with. I *did*
install with this specific CD. I suspect that being OEM is the problem. The CD label
in My Computer is "VRMHOEM_EN". I'm not sure if that is standard.
The computer(Windows XP SP2) is using a CD key from Windows XP Pro x64, which was
(surprisingly) accepted by Microsoft. I have recently had to do a phone activation
because of a hardware change, too.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that I have successfully run sfc on this install before.
Neither sfc /scanonce nor /scannow works.
Can I fix this? Is there any way to just make sfc forget about what CD I have in
and use the files there anyway? Can I download the equivalent files and have sfc
use those? If I download a Windows CD off bittorrent, will that work for this?
Reinstallation is not an option unless you know a way to preserve all of my program
settings. I don't have time to set everything up the way I need it.
Thanks!
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