Windows 10: DISM repair with ISO not working am I doing somrthing wrong ?

Ok my turn to "turn in" for the night as my eyes cannot take looking at the screen anymore. I've read to many posts *Sleepy

Tomorrow I am going to try again. When I get to the drive window I will delete both partitions. That should just show unallocated space.
I wasn't sure if after deleting both partitions if the drive would be automatically reformatted, but it appears to be the case.

 

Windows 10 does not need a Key on a subsequent installation , the activation Server will see the MotherBoard again and activate Windows automatically once installed via the Internet.

I have never seen the two step verification myself for an install , if the computer already had Win10 , I just push Skip , as I know it will auto activate itself once fully installed.

Like Dalchina I don't think you did a Clean install , sounds like a Reset , rather than a Inplace though...

When asked where you want to install Win10, DELETE ALL Partitions , until the whole Drive says Unallocated Space and then Click Next
and the Installer will setup the correct GPT Partitions for you , DO NOT format anything.....

Good luck

KB.

 

Thanks Kbird the two-step verification I had only seen when logging into my MS account. Yes I was surprised myself to see the install would not proceed unless I logged in with the code. Maybe that will happen again today.
See everybody in a while.

I apologize if I am taking up so much time !

 

Ok back up and running.
I must say that when I started this install a few screens were different: The screen for "enter product key" this time was exactly as in the Forum video.

I deleted both partitions.
I skipped over the two-step verification screen to open a Microsoft account so I did not need to enter any code.
Took 1 hour to load/install, then another hour downloading updates.

No old files or desktop showing up.

Ran SFC and found corruption unable to repair.
Ran the DISM to repair and it repaired things successfully.
Ran the SFC had corruption, but was able to repair.
Ran SFC and this time everything is 100% ok.
Don't know why there was corruption on a new install, but at least it was repairable.

I think I'm am finally there except for reconnecting my other drives, and doing some housekeeping on them.
Took a peek at disk management, and yes the two partitions were recreated for 232.4Gb, and 500Mb.

Haven't had any crashes: After all the crashes it feels odd not to be crashing if you get what I mean.

Thanks to all that responded, and special thanks to dalchina, and Kbird for hanging I there when things dragged on.

 

If you have a 500 Recovery Drive , then that would normally indicate you installed Win 10 in Bios/MBR mode not UEFI mode , if in UEFI mode on a GPT disk you should also have the 100mb EFI Partition (system reserved) .... your post #43 info is correct.

you can check by typing msinfo32 into the Run DBX (Win Key +R) and look under Bios Mode too

this is my disk partitions on a 256 GB GPT SSD + UEFI

 

When I run msinfo32 in the run box System Information come up. I do not see the disc partition screen as you posted.
I do no that I don't have UEFI, just the older BIOS. Next motherboard no doubt will have EUFI.

 

Two different things ST , guess I wasn't Clear ...sorry

msinfo will show next to BIOS Legacy or UEFI

my old system is not fully UEFI either but shows UEFI, but Under Secureboot State you will see unsupported if not fully UEFI but my Disk/SSD is still GPT Partitioned. ( that is the Disk management Pic above)





if it says Legacy , then you probably installed in MBR Mode , though that maybe all your system supports ?

KB