Questions tagged [sfc]
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How do I repair the corrupted files found by sfc /scannow? "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them."
In Windows 7, after running chkdsk C: /F /R and finding out that my hard disk has 24 KB in bad sectors (log is posted below), I decided to run Windows 7's System File Checker utility (sfc /scannow).
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What is the purpose of the DISM /RestoreHealth parameter and SFC?
What is the purpose of the DISM /RestoreHealth parameter and the SFC /ScanNow parameter?
How do they correlate to one another?
In what order should they be run?
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Windows 10 DISM error: 0x800f081f
I have been trying to run sfc /scannow in cmd but have been unsuccessful. Therefore, after some research on the Internet, I turned to the following command:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth ...
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How do I analyze the 'CBS.log' file generated by the 'sfc' command to detect corrupt files in Windows 7?
I have some problems with my Windows 7 system so I've ran sfc /scannow. I'm getting this message:
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and was unable to fix some of them...
I also ...
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Windows 10 DISM cannot find files, even with ISO mounted
After running sfc /SCANNOW in my Windows 10 Pro installation, and getting
"Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix
some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log
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How does sfc repair the dllcache backup directory?
According to System File Checker (sfc) Documentation sfc will follow certain procedures to determine whether a system file is corrupt.
If sfc discovers that a protected file has been overwritten, it
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Is there a way to cancel sfc /scannow in windows 7?
After launching the sfc /scannow resource checker from a command prompt or a batch file, is there any way to cancel the process or does the process have to be left to complete?
In Windows XP, sfc /...
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Windows update fails with error 80073712, how to fix?
I have a laptop with Windows 8.1. Since patch Tuesday, it mysteriously freezes for about 4 minutes shortly after every bootup. There's barely enough time to log in before it happens. I tried a System ...
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Run sfc /scannow or chkdsk /f first
Is it better to run ChkDsk /f first, then Sfc /ScanNow or is it better to run the other way around, and does it matter which is run first, as I see no guides online saying which is the best option?
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SFC found errors, DISM named the errors, but how can I fix them on Windows 7?
My computer crashed while running an old game not really meant for Windows 7. After every unexpected shutdown, I run sfc /scannow and this time it came back with errors. A long log, 12000 lines of ...
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Fixing Windows Update being unable to install updates while sfc and dism are unusable
At some point in the lifetime of my PC Desktop system I got two bluescreens in a row while playing video games. Following that I managed to stop the system from crashing by rewireing all hardware but ...
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How to stop Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup?
I have a Windows Server 2026 that executes Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup now for more than one day.
This task is executed by TiWorker.exe. I read that it is not save to ...
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sfc /scannow: What does "Duplicate ownership for directory" mean and how do I fix it?
I'm running WIndows 10 version 1709 (OS Build 16299.248). When I run sfc /scannow, it results in:
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix
some of them. Details are ...
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How do I locate uncorrupted versions of corrupted files after running sfc /scannow
I had some corrupted system files. I have run sfc /scannow several times, and Dism ... RestoreHealth (followed by sfc /scannow again). This has fixed nearly everything, but I am left with the ...
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How to find repaired files by reading CBS.LOG
I ran sfc /scannow
Get the message
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully
repaired them. For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log
file located at windir\Logs\...
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How do I fix "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation" on sfc /scannow
I have a problem on my Windows 8.1 PC where it displays a BSoD that says CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. I saw a page and it says that I have to run sfc /scannow. I went to the automatic repair and got to the ...
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Windows 10 1709 Won't Upgrade / DISM Errors
I am trying to install a more current version of Windows 10 but everything I have tried has failed. I don't know if problems with sfc /scannow and DISM are related but the latter is also problematic. ...
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How to execute DISM from Windows 10 PE on Win 10 system with Windows Update / Microsoft as source only?
I've got a corrupt Windows 10 installation (SFC noted Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix someo of them...) so I tried to run DISM, from a Windows 10 PE USB ...
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Why Does SFC Always Get Stuck On This One File?
When I boot Windows the log shows then instead of the login screen it shows a black screen with a cursor. The same thing happens with safe mode.
When running Startup Repair the SrtTrail.txt says a ...
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Server fails to properly boot/SFC will not run
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that has a failing RAID controller. Unfortunately, this machine was not being backed up. It would appear it corrupted some of the Windows drivers and the machine will ...
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How to run a system file check on an external HD?
I have a hard drive plugged into a dock that has Windows 7 installed on it, I would like to do a SFC on it, because when I do it internally it says some files can't be repaired, what is the command?
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How can I fix issues in Windows 11 without uninstalling programs when SFC and DISM fail
Disclosure: My system does not meet the requirements for Windows 11 and was installed by bypassing requirements.
I have been experiencing numerous problems with my system including failed Windows Apps,...
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Can't Run SFC Scannow (Windows 10, Dell XPS 8500)
I have been having issues trying to update Windows.
Whenever I access anything related to the Windows update processes that program freezes up. I try to check updates from the settings menu and the ...
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Windows 10 SFC and DISM errors
First of all, I know this is a duplicate but there was no real answer to the other question Windows 10 DISM error: 0x800f081f and I'm still not allowed to comment. :/
My original problem is an ...
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Windows Dism.exe /RestoreHealth /LimitAccess, no /Source, Where is the Features on Demand location and should I use it?
Regarding the command Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /LimitAccess
Normally /RestoreHealth is used without /LimitAccess, which makes Dism use Windows Update to compare against the ...
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Error 0x80070780 - The file cannot be accessed by the system. How can I delete this folder?
When I try to delete the folder named C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\FocusHomeInteractiveSA.APlagueTaleInnocence-Window_1.0.5.0_x64__4hny5m903y3g0 I get the error...
The file cannot be accessed by ...
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Windows 10: sfc and dism cannot repair corruption
There are several posts along this line, but the fixes that answered other questions did not solve my problem.
Windows 10 Pro
Upgraded from W7 Pro, then did a "Reset", as I was having some ...
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How Verify if SFC has found errors
I want to run SFC command in a cmd file. At the ende of the check i would like to verify whether SFC has found errors (that an error message can be displayed) or not. Unfortunately errorlevel seems ...
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Windows 11 system corrupted? no WU, no in-place reinstall, no SFC, no DISM, …
Trying to update the Nvidia drivers to the latest 552.44 I realized my Windows installation is royally crippled...
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The drivers installation failed. And then it suddenly removed the 552.22 ...
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How is Windows 10 still checking my disks at boot when I have deleted all the chkdsk exe files?
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I have a Windows 10 Pro (20H2) computer that will always begin a chkdsk on my E: drive on boot. The E: drive is an 11TB volume created with Window's "Manage Storage Space" tool.
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What does "offline boot directory" refer to in the /OFFBOOTDIR SFC option?
There are bunch of tutorials/instructions out there how to SFC-scan a Windows (Vista+) installation other than one booted, e.g.
Sfc.exe /ScanNow /OffBootDir=E:\ /OffWindir=D:\Windows /OfflogFile=E:\...
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Windows 10 machine issues, instability, unreliable test results
I have two HP Elitebook 8540w machines. With the main machine (machine I use every day) if I run sfc /scannow it returns
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of ...
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Unable to boot into Windows 8.1 after repeated bsod
I have a 6yr old Lenovo laptop. It suddenly started giving me repeated blue screen on trying to startup, and I wasn't able to boot into Windows at all. I created a Windows 8.1 ISO on USB flash drive ...
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SFC does not work neither windows update and system reset return an error
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sfc does not run even in offline mode, Windows update can't install updates, dism reports no error, Windows is unable to do a reset. What can I do fix this problem?
I first noticed the problem ...
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Windows 8.1 black screen with cursor, no safe mode, sfc not working
I'm trying to repair my computer from booting into a blackscreen through the CMD mode (safe mode isn't working), after seeing that Startup Repair couldn't repair my PC. When I type sfc /scannow, I get ...
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Why won't my Windows 7 machine boot?
A couple of months ago, my Win7 PC unexpectedly became unable to boot normally. I'm able to boot into the various Safe Modes, but everything else fails (including what is sometimes called a "clean ...
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Some Microsoft Edge files are corrupted - where do we find known good versions?
We used the System File Check tool to determine that the following are corrupt. This KB article suggests replacing the files with "known good versions." Where do we find known good versions of the ...
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Manually replacing corrupt Windows file
The results of my recent SFC scan have returned bad:
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log.
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KB3022345 utc.app.json & telemetry - Patch not sticking
I have a Windows 7 laptop that keep crashing to blue screen.
This has been happening intermittently for 3-4 weeks. After looking online I ran an "sfc /scannow" to check for corrupt files. The scan ...
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How to repair msi.dll
Windows 8, Acer Aspire M laptop.
The file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msi.dll has become corrupted (viewing with a hex editor, the first 0x4000 bytes are zero). This is probably due to a hard drive error. ...
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Force Run System File Checker (SFC.exe)
C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart
Windows and run sfc again.
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What hash type is used by DISM / SFC?
What hash type is represented below?
Example 1: 0h+p0j3/Y9s1ly0mqtU741bzLjqz12mDQGKtVScMeKg=
Example 2: uNryI5MYSV5U5O1NuFPGYexSxm2nLFrRXVqga+nQjw4=
These hashes came from the CBS.log file after ...
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Is it Reasonble to run SFC /scannow everynight on your computer?
On my computer (Win7 64-bit prof) i run every night a backupscript with robocopy and at the end the sfc /scannow command. I started this 2 years ago on my old computer, usually it showed me no Tags ...
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Windows has had a BSoD, sfc /scannow not working
yesterday my windows 10 PC went trough a update, after it it worked normally, during the night I was compiling resources for a Linux OS in Virtual Box and after 1 hour or so I had a blue screen of ...
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How do I fix this file that SFC flags as corrupted if using a copy straight from a brand-new ISO doesn’t work?
I recently set up a new Windows 10 PC (then v20H2), and whilst customizing it, I replaced the default “new email” sound (C:\Windows\Media\Windows Notify Email.wav) with the Win8.1 version, which I ...
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Corrupted .NET Framework 4.0 Installation on Windows 10
After a bad Windows Update, sfc /scannow has confirmed that a bunch of .NET Framework 4.0 files are "corrupt". Here is an extract from the logs listing all corrupted files:
C:\WINDOWS\...
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SFC /SCANNOW: RPC server is unavailable
Not sure what's happened, but an old machine that we use for accounts has worked for years. There's no real updates for Windows XP anymore, so nothing should have changed. We don't use it for anything ...
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DrUpdate.dll error in sfc /scannow
I have an issue with sfc /scannow. It finishes the verification process and informs me of errors there were unable to be fixed. I looked into CBS.log file and I found four entries related to drupdate....
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Windows 10 corrupt files issue error 0x800f081f
After running sfc /scannow in cmd, I get the error message : "
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix
some of them."
Looking at the details in the log, this set of ...
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Cannot start SFC
Trying to run sfc /scannow on a Windows 7 Pro x64 PC and get the following error:
Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service.
Tried running net start trustedinstaller to fix the ...
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