Re: SFC /SCANNOW asking for files from non existent sources...

From: Peter (ex-brit)
Date: 07/24/05 

Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:45:33 -0400

OK now we have a problem. I have SP2, which of course you should to but
that's another story, and in order for this to work the SP2 which includes
SP1 and all other updates, has to be slipstreamed into your installation
disk, otherwise you'd be inserting disk after disk and making little
progress. I used Autostreamer and Nero for that.
Is it prompting you to insert disks?
If you aren't careful here it's going to mean a complete reinstallation. 

-- 
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 HT @ 3ghz, 1gb RAM, 360gb HD
"Ms. Linda A.W." <msnews@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:ux8qEBJkFHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Peter wrote:
>> ..Also, I just copied and pasted the i386 folder on C:\ not into any 
>> options folder.
>> It's outlined here: http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
>>
> ===
> Made further progress, but still have problems.  The first I've run into
> has SFC looking in the wrong place in "Service Pack 1" for a missing file:
> "coadmin.dl_" (or .dll).  On my SP1 CD (turns out it was included with a
> book (Microsoft XP Inside/Out).  The file is located at 
> <servicepack>/i386/ip/coadmin.dl_>.
>
> Thinking my SP1 copy might  be odd or corrupt, I just downloaded it just
> now, again -- and have figured out "why", but not "why" (!?).
> SFC is looking for a file COADMIN.DL_ (or .DLL).  It is looking in the 
> "i386/"
> directory of the "ServicePackFiles" location, but in SP1, this file is 
> located
> at <servicepackpath>\"i386\ip\coadmin.dl_".  I.e. not "i386\[filename]",
> but in the subdirectory "ip/" under "i386/".
>
> Thinking my SP1 copy might be "weird" for some reason, I just 
> re-downloaded
> the 126M SP1 patch.  It still has the file "coadmin.dl_" located in the
> subdirectory "ip".
>
> Obviously, I can "kludge" around this by moving files from their proper 
> location
> to where "SFC" wants to see them, but this would involve me "corrupting" 
> the
> the SP1 image.  I'm sure some of my other problems were (are) of this ilk 
> as
> well.  Looking at the "DLL Help Database" for this file
> (http://support.microsoft.com/dllhelp/?dlltype=file&l=55&alpha=coadmin.dll&S=1),
> it seems only a small-business-edition has it in such a subdirectory, but 
> I
> can see the file in the "ip/" sub dir in the "xpsp1a_en_x86.exe" I just 
> downloaded.
>
> This seems a bit "whacked" that I should need to move ServicePack files 
> around
> to get SFC to work properly.  The "coadmin.dll" is in the "i386" directory 
> of
> the original XP release.
>
> I suppose I'll make a 2nd copy of the SP1 dir to contain my "modified" SP1
> files,  but this makes for a ugly hack -- especially since I have to run
> sysinternal's "Filemon" to see what file it is looking for...(amongst tons 
> of
> output).
>
> ---
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