Continued Problems: No DVD in System and Winxsys Corruption

DonB · Feb 19, 2015

After I installed VMWare Player 6 (now 7.1) I lost DVDs in system and have missing or bad Manifest files.

Note: Windows 7x64 OEM used. Install.Wim contents compressed tried SFC /scannow...see CBS.log.

Thanks for helping.

Go The Power · Feb 22, 2015

Hello and welcome to the forum.

This does not look good at all:

Code:

Seconds executed: 6355
 Found 3048 errors
  CSI Manifest Missing Total count: 233
  CSI Located Replacement: Invalid (S256H) Total count: 76
  CSI Payload File Missing Total count: 2815

I find it really hard to believe that 2815 payload files are missing, unless you have had major HDD crash, something went wrong with the SURT scan, or you have added a COMPONENTS hive from another computer onto this machine. Has any of these occurred?

If no, we really need to check the HDD before continuing.

Warning:: This fix is specific to the user in this thread. No one else should follow these instructions as it may cause more harm than good. If you are after assistance, please start a thread of your own.

Warning:: Before doing anything it is a good idea to back up any data/files that are important to you, in case your hard drive is dying. Please see Here

What I recommend from here is to run some HDD diagnostics. Please follow the steps here for SeaTools HDD Diagnostics. Run a Long test and a Short test, then report back the results to this thread.

chkdsk /f scan

Click on the

button. Inside the search box type in CMD
Right click on CMD => Choose Run as Administrator
Inside the Command Prompt windows copy and paste the following commands
chkdsk /f
Reboot
Download ListChkdskResult.exe (by SleepyDude) from Here
Double click on it to run it. It will take a few seconds to scan, then it will open a Notepad window with the log. Copy and paste the contents of this into your next post please!

DonB · Feb 23, 2015

Update:
Did not import any Component Hives.
SURT Scan: No Errors System Readiness Tool: Oct. 2014
I have WD Lifeguard, will run it and Chkdsk /r
Already Backup drive

DonB said:
After I installed VMWare Player 6 (now 7.1) I lost DVDs in system and have missing or bad Manifest files.

Note: Windows 7x64 OEM used. Install.Wim contents compressed tried SFC /scannow...see CBS.log.

Thanks for helping.

Go The Power · Feb 24, 2015

SURT Scan: No Errors System Readiness Tool: Oct. 2014

SURT was the tool that detected all these errors:

Code:

Checking System Update Readiness.
Binary Version 6.1.7601.22471
Package Version 26.0
2015-02-19 11:02
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Summary:
Seconds executed: 6355
 Found 3048 errors
  CSI Manifest Missing Total count: 233
  CSI Located Replacement: Invalid (S256H) Total count: 76
  CSI Payload File Missing Total count: 2815

I am afraid at this point a full reinstall of Windows will be your best option. Let me know how chkdsk and the HDD diagnostics went.

DonB · Feb 24, 2015

Do you know:

1. If I extracted Winsxs folder from Install.wim and put the contents on a Hard drive, do I need to path the source like this: sfc:/scannow /offbootdir=P:|WINDOWS SLIPSTREAMS ISO|GRMCPRXFREO_EN_DVD|winsxs /offwindir=e:\

Just curious?
-DonB

Go The Power · Feb 25, 2015

That will just scan the contents of this folder for corruptions.

I wouldn't recommend copying a WinSxS folder and putting it on your computer, this will cause further issues.

DonB · Feb 25, 2015

I think you may have misunderstood (?)

I want to try and fix these glitches by doing an SFC fix offline:

sfc /scannow offbootdir=p:[bs]P:\WINDOWS SLIPSTREAMS ISO\GRMCPRXFREO_EN_DVD\winsxs /offwindir=e:[bs]windows

BTW: How to restore [backslash] everytime I press [backslash] I get \ key?

DonB said:
After I installed VMWare Player 6 (now 7.1) I lost DVDs in system and have missing or bad Manifest files.

Note: Windows 7x64 OEM used. Install.Wim contents compressed tried SFC /scannow...see CBS.log.

Thanks for helping.

Go The Power · Feb 27, 2015

You wont be able to fix all 2815 missing files from an offline repair, this MIGHT work if the image was the exact replica of your HDD, but all these missing files are from 100's of different versions/updates. Is install.wim from the original Windows 7 RTM disc? If yes, you will only be able to repair 1 out of 2815 files with this method, I looked in the log again, only one file is from the original RTM image.

BTW: How to restore [backslash] everytime I press [backslash] I get \ key?

Are you saying that when you press backslash another key comes up?

DonB · Feb 27, 2015

Go The Power said:
You wont be able to fix all 2815 missing files from an offline repair, this MIGHT work if the image was the exact replica of your HDD, but all these missing files are from 100's of different versions/updates. Is install.wim from the original Windows 7 RTM disc? If yes, you will only be able to repair 1 out of 2815 files with this method, I looked in the log again, only one file is from the original RTM image.

BTW: How to restore [backslash] everytime I press [backslash] I get \ key?

Click to expand...

Are you saying that when you press backslash another key comes up?

Yes, when I press [backslash] I get \.

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Aside from this, I think it's time to bite the bullet and do a REPAIR INSTALL. In-Place.
- Don

Go The Power · Mar 2, 2015

What keyboard language are choosing in the set up? i have seen this before when a different language was selected, try a few of the English ones.

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