Windows 10: I need a Windows 10 1709 repair disk!

I attempted to restore an Acronis True Image 2018 file but something went awry and now I cannot boot into Windows 10 at all. After a lot of attempts the current situation is that I get the message 'the drive that Windows is installed on is locked, please unlock and try again'. How can I obtain a repair file to help me fix this problem? I have 2 laptops, both runnning validated Win 10 1709, I'm currently using the spare system. I do have earlier versions of repair disks but I obviously forgot about ensuring I had a current one*Redface*Redface.

I am able to restore a Macrium Reflect image and that reports that it was successful but when I reboot the system just comes up with the language and keyboard selection. It has beea long time since I needed to delve into the 'guts' of 10 so I am unsure what to do next.

Ideally, I would like to be able to get my C:\Windows back but I'm not sure how. When I tried the Reset/Recovery/Repair installation options it tells me I have two Windows 10, both on volume 4 so I guess one of those is not needed. but which?!

Help greatly appreciated as I'm way too old for this!!!*Sad

Thank you.

:)

 

Windows 7 imag back up in windows 10

Hi all.

Can anyone advise if a windows 7 repair disk will work with windows 10 or will I need to create a new repair disk?

I notice that it is still a windows 7 utility / program that creates the system image and repair disk in win 10, I made a repair disk in windows 7 before doing the upgrade to win 10 so will this disk still work or as above will I need to create another repair
disk?

Any advice much appreciated.

Regards

Simon

 

Update from windows 10 Version 1703 to windows 10 Version 1709, Keyboard/Mouse issues on recovery.

To be more precise on my last statement, I have no issues if I use a windows 10 installation disk to do the recovery or a repair disk created from version 1703 , but the repair disk created from windows 10 Version 1709 has the same bug I described earlier
with the recovery restart:

It cannot see the keyboard or mouse plugged into the USB 2.0 ports, but works when keyboard and mouse are plugged in the USB 3.0 ports.



F.G.

 

1) Find a flash drive that you can format ( > or = 8 GB)
2) Create a bootable Windows 10 iso:
Download Windows 10
3) Insert the iso flash drive into any USB port
4) Boot to the iso using the applicable keyboard key:
List of PC brands with their corresponding hot-keys
For HP it is F9
Power on and repetitively click the F9 key
5) Select external USB hard drive
6) It may take 5 - 10 minutes for the iso to load while viewing the Microsoft Windows icon
7) Select language, time, currency, and keyboard or click next
8) Click troubleshoot
9) Click system restore
(Start with the oldest restore point and keep repeating up to the most recent restore point)
If system restore fails or if there are no restore points advance to the next step.
10) Click startup repair
If startup repair fails advance to the next step

11) Click command prompt > Administrator :\Windows\System32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources> type:
For all of these steps use a camera or smart phone camera to take pictures and post images into the thread:
12) c:
13) dir
14) d:
15) dir
16) bcdedit /enum
17) bcdedit | find "osdevice"
18) diskpart
19) list disk
20) list volume
21) select disk 0
22) list partition
23) select partition 1
24) detail partition
24) select partition 2
25) detail partition
26) select partition 3
27) detail partition
28) select partiton 4
29) if there are any additional partitions on disk 0 continue in the same fashion
30) select disk 1
31) list partition
32) exit
33) bootrec /fixmbr
34) bootrec /fixboot
35) bootrec /scanos
36) bootrec /rebuildbcd
37) chkdsk /r C:
reboot
This may take many hours so plan to run overnight.

 

Hi zbook, many thanks for the detailed task list! A long job indeed.

So much has gone on that I expect I have forgotten some/a lot of it but whereas before, I had two Windows 10 installations I now have just the one but I don't know how that was fixed. I am able to do an image restore using True Image and Macrium Reflect but it stll won't boot into Windows. There were no restore points offered even though I knew there were three as I checked before all this happened.The first time I went through your list it failed on bcdedit enum and bcdedit | find "osdevice" but after whatever I've done they now pass, as do all of the others as far as I can tell.

There is are a lot of apparant errors running chkdsk /r C: too many to get onto one photo.

As a very reluctant user of a smartphone you set me a real challenge so I hope you can see all that you need to help solve this for me! And my old laptop keeps overheating, literally!

Currently,the faulty system still fails when I try any of the options Reset, Recovery, Startup problems and so on. I am tempted to ask if I could try to re-install a clean Windows, I know it will mean a lot of work but I wondered if I could get it running then restore one on my images to get all my stuff back? But if that didn't work I would be concerned that a new clean version might not become validated, especially if I format the C: partition?

I've struggled to get the files uploaded and I apologise if they are not in the right order.

Many thanks.

 

Please make sure to use a camera or smart phone camera to take pictures of all command prompt commands and post images into the thread.


1) Open command prompt > Administrator X:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources> type:

These are the unabridged commands:

2) bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup
(This will export the BCD store as a file: bcdbackup (a file extension is not needed)
(It should display: The operation completed successfully.)
3) attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
(This removes the hidden, read only and system attributes from the file BCD)
(The attributes had restricted the actions on the file and now it can be renamed)
4) ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
(now that it is renamed it should be able to be rebuilt)
5) bootrec /rebuildbcd
It should display:
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
[1] D:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes/No/All:
6) Y
then enter key
It should display :
The operationi completed successfully. (The BCD rebuild is complete.)
7) reboot

These are the abridged commands:

bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /rebuildbcd
Y
reboot

 

zbook, thanks for the very quick response!! I won't be able to get onto this until the morning.

I notice you say *Biggrin:\Windows? My Windows was on C:\, unless the plan is to change it after it has booted?

Thank you.

I'm assuming you were able to make sense of my artwork.?*Wink

 

The last image I was not able to see the result of the bootrec /rebuildbcd and used the bootrec /scanos result.
Most of the other images I was able to get some information.
There are more steps if the above fail.
Sometimes the chkdsk /r C: may need to be run several times.
So you can run it again overnight and then post an image into the thread.

 

I have hit a snag as you will see - removing the attributes, file not found. I tried it twice to no avail but haven't ventured further at this stage.

The third pic is another of bootrec /rebuild from yesterday.

 

There is a missing space between each: bcd -h; -h -r; -r -s
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s

 

I tried it numerous times with the spaces, this is the latest attempt.

 

Hi zbook,
I've been going through the list of commands you gave me and I remembered that when I first did the bootrec /rebuildbcd it came up with Total identified Windows installations: 0 and then when it asked me if I wanted to add installation to the boot list. I very stupidly typed Y. I obviously wasn't aware of the implications and what it meant.

I realise now that I should have typed N to that request. I have no idea if there is a command that will reverse that situation but I assume this may be the cause of my current problem?

Many thanks.

 

Will it be possible for me to do a clean install of Windows even though the current boot files are causing problems? Will they be overwritten with a new install?

If this can't be fixed it looks like a new laptop which I want to avoid!

Any help greatly apppreciated.

Thanks

 

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way rufus will create a bootable usb drive as required minimum 8gig.
download the latest win10 iso file (media creation tool) download to the hdd
follow the directions on rufus interface to complete creating the bootable usb stick. make sure you direct rufus to the place on your hdd where the iso file is stored so it can copy the iso to the usb stick.(click the iso icon in rufus)
clear your c drive partition even the partition as well (clean completely)
boot the usb stick and install win10 its quick to do so and saves you a lot of time trying to repair the system

P.S. this junior member is 77 years..

 

Hi johnebadback,
I already have the Windows 10 1709 iso burnt on a DVD which works OK, I'm using it now. The problem is I don't know how to repair/correct the damaged bcd\boot file so that I can boot from the windows that is already on the system. It isn't a question of 'have I got Windows or not', as I do have it.

If I cannot repair the boot files I'm trying to find out if I can install a clean windows 10 on to my C:\ drive, in other words, will the install find the C:\ drive and allow a clean install and does it create new boot files? I'm assuming I will need to format the C:\ drive once I can get to it.

And my other concern is, if I format the drive will Windows 'know' that my copy has already been validated or do I lose that?

Thanks for the suggestion!


I know nothing about Ubuntu and for me that will cloud my thinking as it is yet another thing to get my head round! But thanks for the suggestion.

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