Windows 10: Major Corruption in Windows System files, SFC and DISM don't work.

Hello!


I am having a huge issue with windows system files of my dad's computer. Apparently, one day while windows was updating, he forcefully shut down the PC because it was taking too long, this coupled with the fact that one other day power was variable and thus I doubt it could have done something in terms of the hardware. The OS became a hell: I can't access settings, I can't open windows update, I literally can't do anything. I tried sfc /scannow but it said that it found corrupted files and was unable to fix some of them, DISM doesn't work. I tried reinstalling windows using the media creation tool, but the installation fails due to error 0x8007025d 0x2000c. I tried to remove latest feature update but it didn't work. I tried to reset the system but it didn't work at all. I tried to boot from a USB, didn't work. I have tried every single way I know that doesn't involve manually replacing corrupted files ( I also tried using Powershell to restore settings, didn't work even though it showed that packages were being added). I don't know what to do.


Today the PC went into a coma (blue screen, doesn't load)


Help is appreciated.


Regards

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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.

 

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

 

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.