SFC problem

[hoppy]

After making an unattended XP cd (with lots of extra drivers and tools) which works perfectly, windows doesn't seem recognize my cd anymore when I run SFC /scannow.

Not the original one or the unattended one.

Does anyone know what SFC looks for on the CD ??

[horsecharles]

Hi hoppy:

Are you getting this message: The CD you provided is the wrong CD. Please insert the Windows XP XXXXXXX CD into your CD-ROM drive?

Can you click OK anyways... let that process fail, then it may prompt you to give a location? (You would then browse to the folder location on the cd... As opposed to doing cancel or retry!-- Those may not give you option to select a location)

If not, maybe the reg change mentioned here: http://www.petri.co.il/change_default_loca...i386_folder.htm

or these other related changes mentioned in below discuss: C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles in:

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

value: ServicePackSourcePath

value: ServicePackCachePath

http://www.alegsa.com.ar/Visitas/i62/Syste...%20sp1%20cd.php

this less likely:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.as...4&enterthread=y

Good Luck.

[hoppy]

Thanks horsecharles for your help, but sorry to say didn't find the solution there either. Sourcepaths in the reg are right and my drive is properly found.

Even did a clean install with the cd on another machine wich worked without a failure but running SFC right away gave the same problem "wrong cd"

Not to worry will find it later probably when I'm looking for something els.

[horsecharles]

Oh, no Hoppy

the only other thing i could think is temporarily slowing down the cdrom speed.....

sorry to hear that......