Vista - System Files - SFC Command

Thanks for the advice.

I have no idea what may have caused the problem or how far it may go back. I think I'm resolved to reinstalling vista from scratch. I've been having numerous other system problems including critical services failing to start, hence the desire to use sfc but they may be beyond simple repair.

Cheers David

Ok i'm stuck. I have had vista for almost a year and throughout the year it has slowly been eating itself away. I bought windows xp and am prepared to downgrade but i decided to give vista one more try.

In short i'm trying to get my check disk to run. I've tried running it in the command prompt, safe mode, on start up, warm boot, cold boot, hard boot, NOTHING.


I following the steps on the forum with the SFC scan, i get this
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C:\Windows\system32>sfc/scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but w
as unable to fix some of them.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log


C:\Windows\system32>findstr/c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log>sfcdetails.txt

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what does it mean? I tried to access the CBS log and when i click on the text file it says access is denied? didn't pull up anything in the command prompt either as you can see.

so my question is what do I do?

Hi Barnesa4,

To read the CBS log use the method at the top of this tutorial to be able to without getting the access denied.

With the number of problems you have, I would recommend that you backup what you do not want to lose and do a clean install.

Shawn

Okay so I have been prompted multiple times by vista because of LoginUI.exe file is corrupt to run chkdsk. everytime I've tried running chkdsk /r it wasnt working and wouldnt on start up. Also the next time I started my computer it started prompting it for everything say 03E0M.exe (or something like that) is corrupt, Yahoo.exe is corrupt, and so on. Then I found this forum and I felt a sense of hope. So I started running sfc /scannow it got 75% of the way done and then said: "Windows Resource Protection could not preform the requested operation."

So I decided to then run sfc /verifyonly and that said "Windows Resource Protection found integrity violations details are included in CBS.log"

So, what should I try doing next a system restore, repair installation, clean installation? I just dont want to go through all of the work of one to find out it doesnt work. Does this chkdsk problem seem to be a purely vista problem? Thanks for all your hard work on this great website, its the one place thats given me so much help.

Hello MarryPoppins,

I would recomend doing a System Restore using a restore point dated before this problem first to see if it can fix the problem for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Idk what happened but like the third time I shut my computer off manually, and it coming back on a screen popped up requesting to fix problems, it was like startup repair or something. While anyways it worked I believe Im gonna see if I can run a chkdsk today.

chkdsk didnt work but the sfc /scannow did. now I need to look at the cbs.log

how do you know the path and file name of the things that are placed in the cbs.log?

MarryPoppins,

1. How to Read the CBS.LOG -
NOTE: When SFC runs, it logs it's actions to the C:\WINDOWS\LOGS\CBS\CBS.LOG. You can find the SFC specific entries by searching for the [SR] tags in the log.
A) For how, see: Microsoft Help and Support: KB928228, then type sfcdetails.txt in the same elevated command prompt and press Enter to be able to read the log file.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I can access my CBS.log that doesnt mean I understand it. I was wondering from the CBS.log how you know the path of the file like C:, E:, and so on. and how you know file name, because now inorder to fix the problems I have to copy a good copy. So I just didnt get how they got the example from what they show

"2007-01-12 12:10:42, Info CSI 00000008 [SR] Cannot
repair member file [l:34{17}]"Accessibility.dll" of Accessibility, Version =
6.0.6000.16386, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_MSIL (8), Culture neutral,
VersionScope neutral, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:b03f5f7f11d50a3a}, Type
neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, file is missing.

1.

At an elevated command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
takeown /f Path_And_File_Name
For example, type takeown /f E:\windows\system32\jscript.dll."

I dont get how they know its E:\ and everything else. If it helps heres the url to what Im looking at.

Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop responding

Sorry if Im not clear at what Im trying to do, this is my first time working with vista, and before that I never did anything with computers.

Ok, I see what you mean now. That was not a very good example they used to go with a [SR] tagged error. It would just be the path inside your Vista, which is usually C: instead. The [SR] tagged error will tell you which file was bad. However, this is a very complicated task that usually may only work if you extract the replacement files from the Vista installation DVD instead. This of course is even more complicated to do.

Over all it doesn't not have a high chance of success. Instead, I would recommend doing a Repair (upgrade) install. It's easier to do and usually fixes the problem. This tutorial will show you how to.

Repair Install For Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

After typing in sfc /scannow I get the following:

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

Any ideas how to get around this?

Regards

Neil