I was hoping to find whatever “gotcha” I am going to find next, after what will be “sfc /scannow….” number 5.Īt least I am quite certain that I won’t ever need this command once I restore the current system. If you’re wondering why I bother YOU with this suggestion, please know that your blog was simply the first one to appear on my google search about this issue. YOU can help by making CERTAIN that your users KNOW they MUST explicitly ask for an offline log. No one sane would go through the trouble of an offline sfc /scannow unless s/he had some reason to, so even if things are perfect s/he would normally like to see a log.

In any case, you mention laconically that “for some reason”, there is no offline log by default. By default, it is stored in the C:WindowsSystem32 folder. However many hours I might waste as a result of such a change, it is likely to be fewer hours than I am wasting by sticking with Windows. System File Checker is a command-line tool built into the Windows OS. I now know that my plan to run Arch Linux as my primary os and reduce my exposure to Windows was a sound one. This calm long note does not really convey just how annoyed I am. For offline repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the OFFLOGFILE flag.” only to get the final status “windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. So then, having now run sfc THREE TIMES, downloaded the 5GB iso and rufus to make an installation USB, I run sfc a fourth time…. Doing this required me to make an Installation usb, but that’s life. Of course I tried a second time, but it just was too fast. I dutifully did this, but only very fleetingly caught some sort of “fatal error” which flashed on my screen at boot time - it simply didn’t stay up long enough for me to see what happened. I have some sort of corruption problem, and when I ran sfc, it told me that that I would have to run it at the next system boot. PLEASE consider editing your tutorial to make a very important improvement: add the “/OFFLOGFILE” option to your first offline example command, and add a sentence of explanation THERE about the essential importance of doing this.

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