sfc - have to keep clicking retry

[Skyhawk]

Ran: sfc /scannow

Had my WinXP Pro CDROM in the optical drive. sfc kept popping up a retry window and I had to click retry about 100 times to do complete the system file check.

Have a CDROM drive and a CDROM/DVD burner drive.
Changed the drive letters immediately after installing WinXP Pro to:
Q: = CDROM drive
R: = CDROM/DVD burner drive. (WinXP CD was in this drive)

Drive letters C, D, E, F and G are assigned to hard drives.

What do I have to do to get sfc to run continuously without my having to click the retry a hundred times?

Thanks,
Skyhawk

[izibo]

try a bootscan?

[Skyhawk]

Originally Posted by izibo

try a bootscan?

How do I do that?

[izibo]

Try running this:

sfc /scanonce

It will cause system file checker to run automatically at the next boot and you probably wont have to deal with the pop-ups.

[Gorganzola]

What exactly was it trying to have you retry?

That is, what was the exact messaging you were getting?

[Skyhawk]

Originally Posted by Gorganzola

What exactly was it trying to have you retry?

That is, what was the exact messaging you were getting?

I didn't write down the exact message but a window would pop up with buttons to retry, skip or cancel as I recall. Everytime I clicked retry I would see the optical drive led blink and the progress bar incremented slowly with each retry. After what must have been a hundred clicks (I guess the amount of system files being checked), the progress bar reached the end and the sfc closed without any error messages.

I believe this is being caused by my optical drive letters being Q: and R: instead of the original letters assigned by Windows upon the WinXP Pro installation.

Thanks,
Skyhawk

[Skyhawk]

Originally Posted by izibo

Try running this:

It will cause system file checker to run automatically at the next boot and you probably wont have to deal with the pop-ups.

Thanks for this tip. The partition with the problem just died with bad sectors so I'm running on my backup second bootable partition now. Afraid to do anything until I buy and install a new hard drive and copy this second bootable partition to it.

Skyhawk