Hi CJ,

Yes, give that a try. Hope that resolves things for you. From what the
article says, I'm guessing it will -- as long as SFC knows where to find the
original files, it shouldn't prompt you for the CD.

My guess is that the registry value uses a "default" value, where it assumes
all Service Pack files would be found. It doesn't take into account that
this version has SP2 built-in. You might be able to search for a better
answer, or ask Microsoft directly.

Best Wishes,
Kurosh


"C J." wrote:

Hi Kurosh, Thanks so much for the link and the help.
I looked it over. I'll check everything in the registry once more before I
try it again. The article mentioned pointing SourcePath directly to where
I've saved \i386\ on my HD - in this case C:\i386 - because the service pack
files folder doesn't exist. But I'm still perplexed why a full retail disk
with SP2 built in, would setup windows to have SFC look inside a folder that
isn't anywhere on drive C:

I did put the default line back in for the cache. Because C:\Windows wasn't
cutting it.

C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\ServicePackCache

"Kurosh" wrote in message
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Did you try the suggestion I made?

Best Wishes,
Kurosh


"C J." wrote:

I think you misread the post. I'd done this once before on an old PC
with a
slipstreamed OEM XP SP 2 disk I made and it worked just great. I'm
working
with a Retail build of XP at the present and it seems no matter which way
I
go I'm getting insert CD rom.

"Peter Foldes" wrote in message
...
An OEM install disk is not the same as a Retail XP Install. You will need
the Retail XP CD that the system was installed with.

--
Peter

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"C J." wrote in message
...
I'm planning to help a friend set up SFC to scan from her Hard drive,
rather
than be reliant upon the Install CD.

Like me she's using XP Pro SP -2 Retail. In order to make sure I have
all
my bases covered (and because I've done this before with an OEM build
of
XP
that had been upgraded to SP2 with a slipstreamed disk I made,) I
changed
the registry values on a clean install of XP Pro SP 2, following
directions
provided by Marc Liron at www.updatexp.com.

When I went to test SFC /Scannow... I was prompted for the Windows
installation CD to rebuild the DLL Cache file. So I went back into the
registry to see what else I could have missed - needing changing.

In HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Set up
the item ServicePackCachePath is pointing to
C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\ServicePackCache ... which is a folder I've
determined to be non-existent in C:\Windows - after showing hidden and
protected OS files So taking a guess I changed that value to
C:\windows.
Also In Setup - the SourcePath and ServicePackSourcePath are both
pointing
to C: - and in
WinNt\CurrentVersion\Winlogon the Sourcepath is also set to C:\
because
\i386 was copied to C: from the install disk.

I'm still getting the same message to insert the CD. Is there someone
who
can help me get this straightened out?

Thanks much in advance.