Windows 10: DISM 'The source files could not be found’

It gets irritating quite fast, when your system is not responding on a "mail open" or "open terminal" command. Press on a mail you want to open, and see Outlook start with "not responding". Do a right click on the terminal icon to open it as administrator and see nothing happening, for five minutes. And the task manager is tooling around at 15% or less.


Anyway, I understand you can use:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

should help. But nothing happens for a long time, and then it ends in failure **** well. But if I understood correct that a:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:"path to install.esd/install.wim' file"

should remedy that. But no luck in that department too. So what are my options?


Note 1: I had to reinstall my Windows 10 machine a few weeks back. I downloaded an ISO file, burned it on a big double layer DVD and reinstalled Windows. That same DVD was used as source path in the second command line, which ended in failure too.


Note 2: from same website: "DISM tool is a tool that can be used to fix problems with a Windows installation. Its primary purpose isn’t to troubleshoot bugs but it does have a dedicated set of commands that can help repair broken system components."

:)

 

Source to use for DISM on Windows 10

This is not completely true. The suggestion is to download the Techbench version and use DISM to apply to install.wim directly. However, you can also use the version download from MCT except it will involve an extra step as follows:

1. Use the latest version of 7-Zip to extract the content of install.esd. For example: to a folder xxx on the desktop
2. From Admin command prompt:
   Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\xxx\windows /LimitAccess

See screen shot, the contents of install.wim and install.esd are exactly the same.

 

Source to use for DISM on Windows 10

hmm...

I assumed they were the same all along so I tried simply COPYING the .esd AND the .wim out, and tried to use them but that didn't work either. Now that you mention EXTRACTING it out, that maybe makes more sense.

I thought the .esd version was encrypted. Does 7-zip take care of that?

 

DISM function and Source Files

What is the command line to set the source files within the DISM function to Windows Update? I have tried to run the DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth and I get an error (see below) stating the source files cannot be found and it refers me to a
Microsoft Website that is pretty much useless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.