How To Fix Windows XP Corrupted Files

How To Fix Windows XP Corrupted Files

This is a nice way to fix your corrupted XP files, all you need to have is a Windows XP cd.

Just put the XP cd in the drive & go to Start->Run-> type ’sfc /scannow’. This should fix your corrupted files in XP. What this procedure does is a simple copy paste of the original file from cd to its respective location in your PC.

If important file gets corrupted which is useful while booting here is what you gotta do.

Boot from your windows XP cd, then ignore the first repair option you get (by pressing R), just move further as you do to install. When it shows you that Windows XP is already installed, then select it & there you will have repair option. So just repair it, this won’t affect any of your installed softwares.

NOTE: You may lose the updated files that is done from windows update, so you may have to update again to get those files. The files in the Windows XP cd will be the version when the Windows XP cd was packed.

Pranjal




  1. Lo Elliott
    May 29th, 2008 at 04:52 | #1

    The information was very informative. Thank you

  2. Asad Malik
    September 26th, 2008 at 22:41 | #2

    what if i dont have a winxp cd… but i do have winxp setup files in my local drive…
    that is can i give some custom path either local or netwrok…

    thanks for your support…

  3. IRIS
    January 13th, 2009 at 21:06 | #3

    I HAVE WINDOWS XP HOME EDITON… MISSING AND CORRUPT
    WNDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM. AND I PUT IN THE CD XP TELLS ME IS AN ERROR…HELP WHAT CAN I DO

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  5. September 18th, 2009 at 09:17 | #5

    Interesting.

    Sounds like what I was thinking when I was trying to get a disk formatted on an older XP machine.

    Thanks for posting.

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