Windows 10: How to properly use SFC and DISM to fix no boot?

Discus and support How to properly use SFC and DISM to fix no boot? in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Hi everyone. I'm not sure if I'm in the right section, but I have a no boot situation on Windows 10. I think its version 1909 but I'm not certain, I'm... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Upsilon, Oct 9, 2020.

  1. Upsilon Win User

    How to properly use SFC and DISM to fix no boot?


    Hi everyone. I'm not sure if I'm in the right section, but I have a no boot situation on Windows 10. I think its version 1909 but I'm not certain, I'm not sure how to check in the recovery environment. Automatic repair fails and it dumps me the blue screen and Advance Options.
    I can go into command prompt and run sfc scannow. Since I'm offline I point it to the system reserve partition. It runs for a while and I get the message Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
    I've check the log file and it repaired a lot of the files but some are unable to be repaired because the file is missing.

    So I read that I can use DISM to repair the files in system reserve and then I can run sfc to fix the boot issue. I used the media creation tool to create a windows install usb. I point DISM to the boot.wim file on the usb to rebuild the system reserve but I keep getting an error. I'm not sure if my syntax is wrong.

    I'm wondering is there an easier way to do this? Can I just run sfc and instead of using the system reserve use the windows image on the usb to repair the corrupt files?

    Thanks

    :)
     
    Upsilon, Oct 9, 2020
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  2. RejZoR Win User

    How to get damn DISM to work?

    Thx guys, I'll compress this data into a blog post. For all the so called guides I've read, not a single one mentioned it has to be WIM file (some listed even ESD which clearly doesn't work) or that certain ISO images don't work with DISM.

    After I've done DISM thingie, SFC also managed to repair stuff. Which is what I've needed here.
     
    RejZoR, Oct 9, 2020
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  3. RejZoR Win User
    Can't get SFC and DISM to work anymore on Win10

    Ok, can someone help me out because this crap is starting to piss me off. There was once a time when you could simply run SFC and DISM to check Windows files integrity and if there were any problems found with the local files, Windows repaired it automatically. The reason why I want to run this is because I'm getting stupendously huge amount of errors and warnings in Event Viewer, but I don't want to run refresh because it'll mess up tons of apps.

    Commands I used:
    sfc /scannow
    Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

    Fast forward few years and we now have glorious Windows 10. Trying to run the same tools, they find errors but stubbornly refuse to fix ANYTHING. What's the god damn point of it then?

    Sfc finds issues but can't repair them and DISM constantly bitches how it can't find the source. All this used to work directly in Windows 7, but in Win 10, nothing. This was one of the best features to get OS back in good state and they go and ruin it. Because Microsoft!

    I've checked this thread:
    https://social.technet.microsoft.co...sfc-failed-to-repair?forum=win10itprohardware

    Nothing worked. And they keep mentioning install.wim where my Windows image downloaded from Microsoft itself! only carries install.esd which I can't seem to use with anything.

    I've also tried this tool:
    CodePlex Archive

    Which again wants .wim file and refuses to work with esd.
     
    RejZoR, Oct 9, 2020
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  4. Nagrodski Win User

    How to properly use SFC and DISM to fix no boot?

    Windows 10 keeps freezing after SFC Scan, DISM tool, and Clean Boot

    Help,

    My laptop keeps freezing after having done updates, as well as the previously suggested SFC Scan, DISM tool, and Clean Boot trouble shooting.

    When the problem started I did the SFC Scan, DISM Tool, and Clean Boot. After troubleshooting in Clean Boot I was unable to determine what program was causing the issue, but the problem went away somehow.

    A couple weeks later the freezing began again and the problem was solvable with just the DISM Tool.

    Now: the freezing keeps happening such that I can't even boot properly, or just after boot it freezes before I can do a Clean Boot, etc.

    What can I do?

    Please help!

    Negrotski
     
    Nagrodski, Oct 9, 2020
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