S
Seni Seven
Question:
How do I get a file not repaired by System File Checker from a Vista DVD
and put it back on the Vista tree? Cannot find the file on the DVD.
Background:
I had rare problem with Vista (clean installed 3 months ago, after 28
months of the original installation working). My hard drive is probably
nearing life end, but there are only a few bad sectors (and only because
HP Pavilion notebooks are NOTORIOUS for overheating and reducing drive
life).
System Restore did not work: it stopped for hours at the "initializing"
phase at EVERY restore point, and this was in safe mode. Besides, I think
system restore only puts back the registry at a set time point, and does
nothing to fix damaged system files.
I then next went to Acronis True Image Home 2009, but it kept telling me
that my saved System States and C Partitions were not the last backup
volume! Panic sets in as the easy roads to help are closed.
So the next step was to use chkdsk in the 5-stage check (chkdsk /r). I
stopped running at a particular file check in the 4th stage. I then ran
chkdsk /r off a recovery CD (don't know where I got it)---thinking chkdsk
on the damaged partition was corrupted (infected??) and it found two bad
clusters on the 100 GB Seagate drive containing the Vista partition. One
was a c:\users\xxxx\appdata\.. problem (no biggie), but the other was a c:
\windows\winsxs\...\azroleui.dll.mui file.
I then re-started Vista on the damaged partition, and ran 'sfc /scannow':
it showed an unrepairable file, which was the file named above. I read
this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
which advised on how to find the files not repaired. But this did not
give information about how to recover the damaged file from the Vista DVD,
although this web page seemed to give the information (for 64-bit Vista):
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/261616-extract-files-vista-
installation-dvd.html
I used this information to extract the Home Premium image, but I cannot
find the file.
Although my Vista boot partition SEEMINGLY works, I have no idea what that
system file is used for. A user should be able to repair a single file
and get 'sfc' to report that all files are sound.
Of course, I can do a clean install/recovery to repair a SINGLE system
file, if I don't mind spending 1-2 days in countless cycles of downloading
updates and service packs with their numerous re-start cycles, and then
spending probably as much as 1-2 weeks re-installing applications and
getting them back to the configuration they are at now. (Does anyone
believe that it is possible to save application config files and then get
the re-installed application to open them and give the user the interface
he painstakingly configured?) By the way, I keep all my personal data on
a separate logical and physical drive, backed-up by simple copying to
external 1TB HD
I am using Vista 32-bit HomePrem.
How do I get a file not repaired by System File Checker from a Vista DVD
and put it back on the Vista tree? Cannot find the file on the DVD.
Background:
I had rare problem with Vista (clean installed 3 months ago, after 28
months of the original installation working). My hard drive is probably
nearing life end, but there are only a few bad sectors (and only because
HP Pavilion notebooks are NOTORIOUS for overheating and reducing drive
life).
System Restore did not work: it stopped for hours at the "initializing"
phase at EVERY restore point, and this was in safe mode. Besides, I think
system restore only puts back the registry at a set time point, and does
nothing to fix damaged system files.
I then next went to Acronis True Image Home 2009, but it kept telling me
that my saved System States and C Partitions were not the last backup
volume! Panic sets in as the easy roads to help are closed.
So the next step was to use chkdsk in the 5-stage check (chkdsk /r). I
stopped running at a particular file check in the 4th stage. I then ran
chkdsk /r off a recovery CD (don't know where I got it)---thinking chkdsk
on the damaged partition was corrupted (infected??) and it found two bad
clusters on the 100 GB Seagate drive containing the Vista partition. One
was a c:\users\xxxx\appdata\.. problem (no biggie), but the other was a c:
\windows\winsxs\...\azroleui.dll.mui file.
I then re-started Vista on the damaged partition, and ran 'sfc /scannow':
it showed an unrepairable file, which was the file named above. I read
this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
which advised on how to find the files not repaired. But this did not
give information about how to recover the damaged file from the Vista DVD,
although this web page seemed to give the information (for 64-bit Vista):
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/261616-extract-files-vista-
installation-dvd.html
I used this information to extract the Home Premium image, but I cannot
find the file.
Although my Vista boot partition SEEMINGLY works, I have no idea what that
system file is used for. A user should be able to repair a single file
and get 'sfc' to report that all files are sound.
Of course, I can do a clean install/recovery to repair a SINGLE system
file, if I don't mind spending 1-2 days in countless cycles of downloading
updates and service packs with their numerous re-start cycles, and then
spending probably as much as 1-2 weeks re-installing applications and
getting them back to the configuration they are at now. (Does anyone
believe that it is possible to save application config files and then get
the re-installed application to open them and give the user the interface
he painstakingly configured?) By the way, I keep all my personal data on
a separate logical and physical drive, backed-up by simple copying to
external 1TB HD
I am using Vista 32-bit HomePrem.
