sfc bug help?

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My Acer PC came with preconfigured CD's, not an XP CD. I believe I have a corrupted Windows system file, but when I run sfc the utility tells me to insert my XP CD to replace damaged files. None of my preconfigured CD's works; each results in a "you have inserted the wrong CD" message. Acer tells me to point sfc to a subdirectory on the C:\ drive where those files are stored. Unfortunately sfc gives me no option to point to a directory on the hard disk. My only option is to insert the XP CD or skip the file. Not surprisingly, copying the correct subdirectory to a CD did not work. Does anyone know an sfc command that will allow me to point the utility to a directory on the hard drive for the proper .dll's? Thanks.
 
Chicago600 said:
My Acer PC came with preconfigured CD's, not an XP CD. I believe I
have a corrupted Windows system file, but when I run sfc the utility
tells me to insert my XP CD to replace damaged files. None of my
preconfigured CD's works; each results in a "you have inserted the
wrong CD" message. Acer tells me to point sfc to a subdirectory on
the C:\ drive where those files are stored. Unfortunately sfc gives
me no option to point to a directory on the hard disk. My only
option is to insert the XP CD or skip the file. Not surprisingly,
copying the correct subdirectory to a CD did not work. Does anyone
know an sfc command that will allow me to point the utility to a
directory on the hard drive for the proper .dll's? Thanks.


You need to edit the path for that folder in the registry.

Go to Start/Run and type regedit and press OK. This will open the
registry editor.

Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup


Click on Setup and in the right side window you will see the value
"SourcePath." Double Click this value and change the path in the Value line
to point to the i386 folder. ( Usually C:\i386 )

If there is also a "ServicePackSourcePath" change this one to point to the
same folder.


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It turns out I needed to point both paths to C:\, not directly to the folder. I can now run sfc, though unfortunately that hasn't solved the underlying problem (see above). Thanks.
 
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