Windows 10: DISM repair corrupt image offline via a DVD, Er 2 ...

Hiya all,

I am trying to repair an image (corrupt) with DISM using an install.wim. But I keep getting error 2:

"Unable to access image."
... check image path and windows directory and have read permissions on folder ...

The folder is the temporary folder on X:\windows\temp as DISM has to be run from WinRE, so /OFFLINE - no /Online solution will help with this case (I am aware this can be tried with install.esd too). So via this code:

Dism /Image:E:\ /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:wim:H:\sources\install.wim

However, I have checked and changed the access permissions for the install.wim, its' folder and the temporary folder on X:, but I remain with this error.

To change the permissions on install.wim and its' folder is easy via properties etc ...

But it involves a bit of code for the temp folder on X: For example:

i) takeown /f x:\windows\temp /r /d y

ii) icacls x:\windows\temp /grant everyone:f /t /q

and can be restored via

iii) icacls x:\windows\temp /reset

This all relates to a previous issue, that I have progressed with, but a reset etc is still not possible despite changes made to windows.

My questions are:

(1) Any better ways of using DISM /offline to repair the windows image (for winload.efi especially)?

(2) Other ways of solving error 2 in DISM which is due to the temp folder on x: - which writes live files on every reboot as in srttrail.txt - only says version of OS incompatible ... which is related to the build of windows 10 as it is over 1803 - , disklayout etc ...

Any ideas advanced users / technically minded?

:)

 

How to get damn DISM to work?

you need to run DISM first before running SFC
SFC query's the local component stores to make repairs
DISM is targeted for rebuilding the component stores and a offline image the 'live' section is still handled by SFC in some cases
except on windows 8.1 and up because they changed it
but only for certain files and only if x part of the store is corrupt
so yea pretty confusing eh

 

Use DISM to Repair Windows 10 Image  


Even doing a clean install of Windows 10 gives corrupt files. Dism seems useless in Windows 10 or in it's current build. I've tried all suggested steps and doing a clean install as a last resort and still get Error: 0x800f081f.

So if the official ISO and upgrade from Microsoft is corrupted, how would someone fix this issue? The reason for me using Dism was because I was getting errors using Windows image backup and powershell giving errors, not sure if there's any other issues.

 

Programs not working

In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.