SBS2000: Question about "Windows File Protection"

Hello everyone.

We found the "Windows File Protection" message on the SBS2K server
today requesting the SP4 CD. I have some questions about this.

1. Must we have a CD for this? I originally installed SP4 from files I put on the
hard drive, but there doesn't seem to be a way to point "Windows File Protection"
to a directory. Am I right in assuming I need to burn the SP4 files onto a CD to
fulfill this request?

2. How can I determine the file it wants to replace? There's nothing in the event
logs related to Windows File Protection. The only error that I can find is a group
of entries from early this morning about the hard drive having a bad block. I'm
guessing that Windows File Protection must have been trying to read a file on this
bad block and, when it couldn't, it wanted to replace it. Does that sound plausible?
Is there a logfile separate from the event logs that records Windows File Protection
activity?

Thanks for any remarks.

Dave
Sun Oct 17 16:12:05 CDT 2004

I ran into this the other day with my desktop PC...there should be entries
in the event logs. I clicked "cancel" on a handful of those prompts, and
"yes" to confirm skipping the file, and after each time an event was logged
stating the name of the file in question.

In my case they all appeared to be files associated with other language
packs that were not present in the source because it was a RIS image, of
which the language pack files are not copied by default at creation time.

Check the value of the item named ServicePackSourcePath in the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup. This
should be a valid path to the service pack files - and can be a folder on
the local hard disk, network path, cd drive etc. Set that value as needed
for your environment.

Hope that helps,
DS

"Julie" <julie@somewhere.org> wrote in message
news:%23Z2HJcHtEHA.3984@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello everyone.
>
> We found the "Windows File Protection" message on the SBS2K server
> today requesting the SP4 CD. I have some questions about this.
>
> 1. Must we have a CD for this? I originally installed SP4 from files I
> put on the
> hard drive, but there doesn't seem to be a way to point "Windows File
> Protection"
> to a directory. Am I right in assuming I need to burn the SP4 files onto
> a CD to
> fulfill this request?
>
> 2. How can I determine the file it wants to replace? There's nothing in
> the event
> logs related to Windows File Protection. The only error that I can find
> is a group
> of entries from early this morning about the hard drive having a bad
> block. I'm
> guessing that Windows File Protection must have been trying to read a file
> on this
> bad block and, when it couldn't, it wanted to replace it. Does that sound
> plausible?
> Is there a logfile separate from the event logs that records Windows File
> Protection
> activity?
>
> Thanks for any remarks.
>
>
>