- While in booting, press F12 and from the boot menu select the ‘recovery media.’
- Then select the Language and go to Next option
- Select ‘Repair your computer.’
- In the screen list, select ‘Windows Installation’ then click Next (in case of the absence of any options, you need to solve the boot partition.)
- Select ‘Command prompt.’
- Then type this command- Sfc/scannow/offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows then click Enter
- Now the System File Checker runs and checks the performance of the files.
How to run SFC from Windows 8/10
- In screen press F12 and from the boot menu, select the ‘recovery media.’
- Then select the Language and go to Next
- Select ‘Repair your computer.’
- Then click ‘Troubleshoot’ and then ‘Advanced option.’
- Select ‘Command prompt.’
- Then type this command- Sfc/scannow/offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows then click Enter
- Now the System File Checker runs and checks the performance of the files.
SFC modifier function
Mostly using the scannow modifier is eligible to solve all the problems, and for some specific purposes, some of the other modifiers are also available. Let’s see what they are and their use as well.
/scannow uses to scan all system files and replaces damaged or corrupted files
/scan once use to scan all system files once
/scan boot use at boot time to scan all files in every time the system is restarted
/cancel use to cancel any pending scans
/enable applications to enables WFP (Windows File Protection) the function of WFP is to block all programs from modifying Windows system files
In running the utility, at the scan ends, you may receive any of the below messages
- Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations
- Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them
- Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them
- Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation
Conclusion
In following our writing now, you can repair missing system files in Windows 7/8/10. In some cases, System File Checker does not work correctly when upgrading from Windows 7/8 to 10; you can find system restore points gone on the screen. But you can follow the above instructions to fix the issues successfully and can retain your Windows performance well.
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