At 04:37 PM 08/07/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
Using SFC to restore to a previous bootable point doesn't work all that well if you ask me. When I've tried it on a system I get nothing but errors that tell me that the restore point is damaged or can't be
I thought SFC scanned system files and replaced from the CD the ones that were damaged. It reads from a restore point? Are you sure? I think System Restore is separate.
restored & when restore does work it doesn't do a darned thing towards fixing the problem. I find that fixing the damage done by viruses, trojans &/or malware goes a long way to restoring a once bootable
I was thinking of running CHKDSK, cleaning off the malware, then using SFC to replace damaged files.
can prevent a system from booting properly. Supposedly that is what MSFT was trying to do with SFC but IMHO it fails more times than not therefore I don't use it at all on any of my systems.
I agree. System Restore generally works for very minor problems that could be fixed another way, and fails on the hard stuff.
T
