Guest spikeychris Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Lots of people are issued with a recovery CD rather than a full installation disk and when they come to do a system file check the struggle. I've been having a play with one and come up with this....If you don’t have a full installation disk then insert the recovery disk and explore it, you are looking for the I386 folder/directory. Copy the 1386 to c:\windows\i386, you would then redirect to that directory rather than D: or whatever drive your CD is.You will first however have to edit the registry to allow this to happen. Go to… HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion and change the sourcePath to c:\windows\i386, it will look like the below..SourcePath = c:\windows\i386If you don’t have the key above you will have to create it first….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Thanks for that - it will no doubt come in useful - my mother-in-law has just got a pc from pcworld with just a recovery cd :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Thanks for that - it will no doubt come in useful - my mother-in-law has just got a pc from pcworld with just a recovery cd :)My deepest sympathy goes to your mother-in-law :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Mmmm. Inclined to agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 You could burn the I386 folder to CD and use that instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 What have you got to do round here to get it pinned :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 What have you got to do round here to get it pinned :rolleyes:She is called nellie2 :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 One of those things that everybody thought someone else would take care of :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Theres fast and theres fast...Do I get a badge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Crackerjack pencil do ? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Well I would have pinned it but someone has beaten me to it.... very good peice of info Chris... thanks!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Pencil will do, thankyou. Whose the mystery person then that obviously appreciates a good post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 cannot tell a lie 'twas I.Will come in handy at some point I'm sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Mark, Always thought you were the Mod of Mods.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Mark, Always thought you were the Mod of Mods..:angry: Humph...... {Nellie flounces off!!!!} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 NellieYour monument shall be my gentle verse, which eyes not yet created shall o'er read. Defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever. The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 :blush: :blush: *swoon Is it thy will thy image should keep openMy heavy eyelids to the weary night?Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from theeSo far from home into my deeds to pry,To find out shames and idle hours in me,The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:It is my love that keeps mine eye awake;Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,To play the watchman ever for thy sake:For thee watch I whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,From me far off, with others all too near. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Shakespeare Powerless!! Isn't he just wonderful!! :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Woman will love her, that she is a woman more worth than any man; men, that she is the rarest of all women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Oh boy.......... :blush: :wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Will some one pop round to nellies and help her down from cloud 9. ;) What's powerless going to say. :o Come on boy, spit it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Update and add onShould of realised this earlier, most users have SP1 either by download or by disk or by buying a new machine. Things will be slightly different as the update changes the SFC options by creating a file called "ServicePackFiles". This means you will have to give a new location... Change the reg entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Microsoft WindowsNT Current Version SourcePath, type in the new location as follows: C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles. You will then change the source (where's Windows going to get the files) to C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\I386 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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