SFC keeps asking for Windows xp Pro SP2 CD

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Velda

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced
this problem. Whenever I try to use the windows file
checker, it prompts me to insert the Windows xp pro sp2
cd. This started happening after using windows update
awhile ago. I am using windows xp home edition with sp1a
installed. I have searched the knowledge base with no
avail. It's really beginning to irritate me. If anyone
knows how to resolve this problem please let me know.

Thanking You in Advance,

Velda
 
Hi

Are you sure that it is asking for SP2. SP2 isnt released yet

And System File Checker sfc always needs the Windows XP CD since the files are restored from the CD

Regard

M. Rajes
www.winxpsolution.co

----- Velda wrote: ----

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced
this problem. Whenever I try to use the windows file
checker, it prompts me to insert the Windows xp pro sp2
cd. This started happening after using windows update
awhile ago. I am using windows xp home edition with sp1a
installed. I have searched the knowledge base with no
avail. It's really beginning to irritate me. If anyone
knows how to resolve this problem please let me know

Thanking You in Advance

Velda
 
Velda,
This happened to me as well 2 days ago. The computer has
XP Home SP1 installed, but while running SFC, it asked me
first for XP Pro SP1 for about half of the files, then XP
Home for the rest. The computer has not been upgraded to
xp pro ever!...Very strange.
 
Hi, thanks for replying to my message. That's the funny thing about this.
I know that SP2 hasn't been released yet. But whenever I use sfc it either
continues to ask for sp2 or it tells me to please insert the windows xp cd
even though it is already in the cd drive. It irritates me so that I just
cancel out of sfc.

Thanks,
Velda
 
I'm not sure if this will work for you but ...

What I've done with my XPPro SP1 disk (when it kept asking
for the cd) was to copy the installation files onto a
separate partition (ie not the operating system - usually
c:).

If you do this with the SP2 and then 're-install' SP2 over
the top of the existing system (you won't do any harm but
you WILL re-direct the pointers), when you next SFC, it
shouldn't bleat at you for the CD.

I fully intend to do just this when I receive SP2.

Either way, you won't do any harm and can do it provided
you have more than one partition and the disk space
required.
 
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