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cheongal:
OK. I will try to find some free time and organize myself to do the repair install. Thanks.

Alain

Boggin:
Doing an offboot sfc /scannow after booting up with the SP1 bootable disk could save you some time on this.

After booting up with the install disk and selecting Repair your Computer, navigate to the Recovery Environment and select Command Prompt.

Enter bcdedit |find "os device" (that's a pipe symbol before find)

Using whichever letter it gives for partition enter, (assuming C: ) sfc /scannow /offbootdir=C:\ /offwindir=C:\Windows

When done, enter exit to close the command window, remove the DVD and select Restart and see what you get after that.

You may like to post what the sfc reports.

Shane:
sfc only checks the system files, doesnt mess with permissions or anything like that. Never hurts to do sfc to make sure but I think he already did that :-)

Shane

Boggin:
I haven't seen any sign of a sfc being done but I would have thought that an offboot sfc /scannow from a clean source would have put all Windows files back to the way they should be and is usually an alternative to a repair install.

I've certainly seen a MSMVP advise it on another forum.

cheongal:
Guys,

Thanks for sharing. But I did do an sfc (and a chkdsk), that was one of the first tasks to remediate. Not an offboot.

Alain

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