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Again I looked AROUND, but didn't see a SIMILAR thread....

Trying to UNDERSTAND what value that the use of scannow can do ME (ie, my special circumstance)

This PC: HP Compaq with XP Pro SP3, "up to date". 

This was an OEM install of XP - ie I never had any XP Pro Recovery disc or CD or any discs/CDs of any description.

The PC is running "OK" (except for OE6) right now.

Here's the backstory: My PC wouldn't reboot (looong story...much searching/learning/pain/brain damage and wandering into unknown Linux territory)

Ultimately I saved my files from the unbootable PC to a USB drive via a bootable CD. 

Then burned a bootable CD of my i386 files (with slipstreamed SP2)

Then did a repair / in-place upgrade process that TOOK me back to SP2 but had all my data intact (ie internally and in addition to my saved data on the USB drive)....this occurred last week...   

I have now updated (again) to SP3 and all the MS updates (I think).   Again, the PC is running "OK" (except for OE6) right now, and there have been no new crashes / non-boots etc.

If I now run sfc /scannow, it prompts me to put in a CD....but the only CD is the one I just used....so what good can scannow do me?? 

Any other ways to accomplish what scannow generally does??

 

Quote from: doc holliday on June 03, 2011, 09:08:51 AM


Any other ways to accomplish what scannow generally does??

Not that I know of. You need the files that are on the XP CD.

Are you saying that the problem with outlook express only happens after you install service pack 3? Quote from: JJ 3000 on June 03, 2011, 09:41:52 AM
Not that I know of. You need the files that are on the XP CD.

Yes, ALTHOUGH the i386 files are purportedly put in these OEM machines to serve the purpose of the XP CDs....at least to my limited understanding.  If so, and if no one or no virus etc previously modified the files, they are as "good" as the XP CD (even if not as accessible)

Quote from: JJ 3000 on June 03, 2011, 09:41:52 AM
Are you saying that the problem with outlook express only happens after you install service pack 3?

No - I didn't try to use OE6 in SP2. (I do have a separate OE6 thread, but this "try it in SP2" isn't there)

I don't THINK there would have been any difference.   Pre-non-boot  - the PC was SP3

Thank you.



There are references to making a OEM disc from files on a per-loaded PC.
Google how to make HP OEM XP CD
IMHO, you don't need to use SFC at this point. Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 03, 2011, 10:10:35 AM
There are references to making a OEM disc from files on a per-loaded PC.
Google how to make HP OEM XP CD
IMHO, you don't need to use SFC at this point.

OK - that's what the line in post 1 was hinting at, "Then burned a bootable CD of my i386 files (with slipstreamed SP2)"...

I was just exploring (!) scannow to see if it might help me at this point, with my OE6 problem.  Conclusion: probably not. Problems with OE6 are common. But EO6 is the most widely use e-mail program. Here is just one of many links that deal with it. This one seems to be a little better than the rest.
Easy Outlook Express Repair -CNET
That page also has other useful utilities for e-mail.


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