Batch File Problem.

I have submitted the utility to the owners of MajorGeeks.

 

Good to see this! Excellent work!!

 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this little project.
I have given credit in the Readme file.

 

You should ask the owners to remove Vista and XP from the "Requires" list Eldon. That's a little misleading since the script won't support Windows versions prior to 7.

It's amazing that the script was already downloaded 550 times in the last few hours Seems it attracts attention.

 

Will do.

It's now at 612...

 

I got that exact position with a new XP Pro sp3 VM.
I do remember there was a way to re-direct the checker to an on-board copy, I think, of the XP cd.
I know Eldon has had enough, at present, but thought it worth noting, as,-If te copy was on-board, I have a hunch it could work- in other words , if I can find the re-direct method , I will come back on this- Like most on here, I hate not solving something when it is so close.

 

I have vague recollections of that too, but if your one and only XP CD is pre-SP1, as mine is, having a copy on-board is of limited use, isn't it?

 

Possibly might still work, but, has to be tried to know , as I believe it just has to be the same version (home/pro, not necessary to be the updated version) but, as far as I can scrape out of the memory box, it was copying the i386 file, and directing the sfc scan to that file, but I just cannot remember now, to root, I think- but, as Eldon idea was for new-bies, they would not have done that, and it would complicate things too much,and therefore defeating his objective- however , if they had the cd, it might work- I have everything on usb, now,and in iso form, so, I have not got many original cd's, now- only Windows 7 Ultimate.
Still,if someone has the original cd, they could try it, and see if the desktop file gets filled in, or, not, if they want to, and not blank, like us.
If I can find a cheap one around of XP SP3, then I might have a go, just out of interest.
Still between them, after Eldon,s great idea, a good tool for newbies.
Great to see it on Majorgeeks as a majorgeek tool!

 

I'll try it in my VM and see if it only asks for the CD the first time. Might be a day or two though.

 

@baklogic, I admire your persistence. And I'm the same.

While this can be made to work on WinXP, it's not that simple.
I did go through some old notes and found a little info.

The i386 needs to be copied to the root of the C:\ drive. Copying it from C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache is pointless - those are the files you want to check. You'll have to copy the folder from a WinXP disc (if you have one) or from a recovery partition (I have not seen a WinXP PC with this).
Then check the following registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
The SourcePath value data must be C:\

 

Notice:
The batch files and code in this thread where for testing and evaluation purposes.
Don't use them!

Info about the utility, as well as the official download, can be found in this thread.
https://forums.majorgeeks.com/threads/sfc-utility.319247/#post-2019209