Vista - System Files - SFC Command

If this fails you might want to do a System Recovery. You can purchase the disks from the mfg. of your computer or at least you can if it is a H P. The disks comes with instructions. The other is to use the Recovery Manager. Click on the start button in the notification area and in the search box type in 'Recovery Manager' and it will bring up the program to restore your computer back to factory. Just follow the instructions on the program. Now I am thinking you have a partition on your disk for this. Also when I purchase my computer which is a HP with Vista home Premium it allows you to make one set of Recover Disk which you might want to do after you get your system back to where it should be. See if you have a Partition D on you 'C" drive. Post back with the results.

I haven't gotten around to trying anything yet... I have a problem with too many files and not enough hard drive space, even my external is almost full. I'm borrowing another computer this evening so I'll use it to do a backup, then I'm going to try a repair install. If that doesn't work I'm going to use the HP recovery dvd(burned from the former recovery partition). I was hoping to avoid the HP solution because it took forever to remove all the crap that comes with a Compaq. I'll post updates here.

Okay, I backde up evertything to another computer and then did a repair install of vista with a friend's vista dvd... Everything seems to be good now.
Thanks for all the suggestions!!
Cheers

I ended up at this thread chasing down why chkdsk wasn't running, and sfc scannow found autochk.exe and 2 other files corrupt which it could not repair due to source files also being corrupt. I manually replaced them from the vista dvd, and was able to get chkdsk to run on startup....once. Chkdsk didn't find any problems, and I reran sfc to ensure everything was well. AGAIN, autochk showed up as corrupt and not repairable. I tried to run chkdsk on startup, and once again it wouldn't run.

What gives? Any ideas on what might be blowing up autochk? I think I might try an experiment - replace it again, reboot but w/o running chkdsk, and test sfc again. I've already run hdd and memory diagnostics and turned up nothing.

I would consider doing a backup and clean install. Did you replace the files with the ones from the service pack version you are on instead of the base DVD?

I typed cmd into the "start search" and it came back with "No items match your search".
This also occurs with mrt.exe,slmgr.vbs etc.
What have I done wrong ? How do I put this right ?
Thanks for any help.

Hello Nelly,

I have updated step 1 with a link on this to help.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

thanks dude for the information.. however it does not really helped me in my problems . i got a problem that involved "hpz3r5mu.dll". it happened when i installing driver for my printer which is hp deskjet 2560. i thought this scan can help me in looking source or process that involved hpz3r5mu.dll. anyway thanks for the info again..

Hello Edenapis,

That file is from your printer drivers according to Google. You might post your problem with as much details as possible in the Drivers forum to see if someone may know of an easy solution for you hopefully.

Shawn

hi shawn,

i used this to try to fix my windows live messenger as it had the error code 8007007e but it still won't let me log on.

can you help?
tisha

Hello Tishaa, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm sorry, but the SFC command will only help with Vista system files and not with Windows Live Messenger.

You might consider posting your question in the Windows Live sub-forum of Software forum to fit the subject better for a hopeful solution.

Shawn