Comments on: Verify the Integrity of Windows Vista System Files

By: Shari

Shari — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:08:10 +0000

A THOUSAND THANKS!! Since mid-April, I’ve spent long nights searching for why flashplayer suddenly stopped working after we updated it to the latest version. Since lots of users are having this problem, it’s too bad Adobe won’t admit their update is breaking driver files, & save us from weeks of frustrating searching & nonworking fixes. I’ve been up some nights until 3am�despite having to get up the next morning at 7:00 for work.

Luckily, last week�the fourth week of my frustrating search�I found a few posters who recommended copying a good msacm32.drv file from another vista pc. But, I don’t know anyone else unfortunate enough to be using vista, so that wasn’t an option. However, those posters put me on the right search path�instead of searching for fixes for missing registry entries, I began searching for bad driver fixes.

So a few days ago, I used “msacm32.drv” as a search keyword. This gave me your page in the results. Your fix is dramatically different from other fixes I’d found, so I was cautiously optimistic. I was afraid that if your fix didn’t work, we’d have to take the pc to BestBuy. Because they’ve wiped out our files before�when trying to fix something else�& yet still charged us for their “services”, I really didn’t want to go to BestBuy. That’s why I’m even more grateful that you’ve posted this right-on solution. Again, thank you a thousand times.

Now I can go back to listening to jazz greats on youtube, & learning to incorporate their style into my jazz piano!

Regards!
Shari

By: ron

ron — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:56:51 +0000

how can I find out my beginning sector and ending sector of my hard drive? what I am trying to accomplish is to run a scan of the integrity of my sectors and the software that I am using is by flobo
and of course I have to input the beginning sector and the ending sector, so that it knows how big my hard drive actually is. How can I find out this information?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:14:29 +0000

Outstanding information! The utility found corrupt files on my system, repaired them, and now the system is running better. Hopefully I won’t have to format to get rid of previous malware now. Thanks a ton!

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:24:46 +0000

Has anyone looked at whether you can run this from a dos prompt outside of Vista? I.e. to fix system files that are usually locked with the OS running?

By: sbw07

sbw07 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:01:30 +0000

To see which files SFC was unable to repair open an Administrator’s cmd.exe and type
findstr /C:”[SR] Cannot repair member file” %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >sfcdetails.txt
as stated in this microsoft article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833 .
Then open C:\Windows\System32\sfcdetails.txt and you’ll see a listing of the files which remain unrepaired.

To repair them follow the instructions in that article. You’ll need a good copy of the problematic files to restore them from, so you might need to copy them off your Vista DVD. To find out how, check out http://www.vistax64.com/tutori.....files.html

By: mary

mary — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:40:40 +0000

For 2 days been trying to reinstall xp os..gets stuck when gets to first verifying drive integrity. Got to 50% last night but always flips back to 0%. How do I figure out how to naually get it past this portion or, correct the problem that I cannot figure out exists. Obviously something is preventing me from moving forward/completing the verification of drive integrity. Please help!

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:58:12 +0000

If you want to know which files were corrupted and could not be repaired, open up CBS.log (default location is C:\WINDOWS\Logs\CBS\cbs.log) and scroll all the way to the bottom. Search for the following phrase: “Cannot repair member file”, search direction bottom to top. Remember to check the date stamp on the files.

If the corrupted file is one you’ve modified yourself, such as config.sys, you can probably ignore the result. Or, if you’re really concerned about it, or you think it could be causing problems, simply manually undo any changes.

Mike, you might take a look at pcstats.com, they have several articles listing ways to tweak your system’s performance. You won’t suddenly be running a fire-breathing gaming machine but in many cases the improvements are noticeable.

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:48:20 +0000

Mike – put your computer in a car and take it for a drive – voila! it’s faster!!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:38:43 +0000

You guys are awesome! I use a celeron running vista. Is there a way I can make her go faster. Software or some tweak I can do on em?

By: breps

breps — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:24:14 +0000

thanks for this, it helped me out big time! I was about to load in the vista disk and do a reboot.

WHS – you probably need to try opening the log file with a program that is running under an administrator account.

Try running notepad as an administrator, then open the log file with ” File > Open “.