Windows 10: Migration vs Clone to New PC

Correct. But that would be an offline upgrade. An online upgrade, to me, would be to go to the Windows 10 software website and click the "Upgrade Now" button - which would just, basically, download what he has already.

 

Hi,

Sure, I probably didn't express myself clearly.
Online, in the sense I meant it, refers to the system being in a running state as opposed to when it is inactive (hence offline) when you do clean install booting off of install media.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Good points. I'm downloading the v1607 now and after that I hope I'll have everything I need to try again. Let me re-cap the original situation issues.

1- Unknown developing bad sectors (10) corrupted some system files on my local C: drive with upgraded Win 7 Ultimate to Win 10 Pro 64, now v1511. I cloned the bad drive to a new drive and swapped it in.
2- The new clone works ok, however Windows Update fails. SFC verifyonly and scannow confirm there are corrupted files which it can't completely fix. My attempts to perform Windows 10 repair-intall via download burned to disk fails at 30% completion.
3- A clean install of Windows 10 Pro with re-install of all software is absolute last resort solution as this will set me back months due to the time required. The goal here is the fix the corrupted system files while in-place.

 

4- I forgot to mention I also tried to install the downloaded files of the cumulative update for v1511 as well as the update to the v1607 Anniversary Update, which both failed.

I just now got a Windows alert that my C: drive is running out of space, so I cleaned out about 20GB but haven't yet deleted the latest downloads during this fix work. I now have 18GB of free space. Something happened during this deletion that interrupted the v1607 download, so I started it over again. Persistence and teamwork will win this battle ...

 

Hi,

Sure, but didn't you say you'd already downloaded 1607 ?

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Yes. However I'm not exactly sure what I downloaded as to v1511 since the links' page wasn't clear and the file label just says Windows.iso. NavyLCDR provided a specific link, knowing what I need, and the label is more specific Win10_1511_English_x64.iso . Were going to fix v1511 first.

 

Hi,

Up to you but it doesn't make any sense to me.

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The other v1511 download didn't include the necessary install.wim file. This download might, as I understand it.

 

Hi,

Reread your own messages.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Download of Win10_1511_English_x64.iso complete (3,922,852KB). I mounted it and install.wim (3,426,111KB) is included in the Sources folder. It's now in a download folder.

From where we left off, I have in C:\ the ImageHealth.cmd file, also the "Source" folder which contains install.wim and windows.iso files as well as "Mount" folder which is empty.

Should I clean any of this out or keep it? What exactly do I do now with Win10_1511_English_x64.iso to fix the corrupted files?

 

First question: I would delete all that extra stuff.

Second question: See post #44:

Migration vs Clone to New PC - Page 5 - Windows 10 Forums

Yes, the file name for the ISO file is different - use the v1511 ISO file.

 

Wow! This post is long and very confusing. I agree with the suggestion of running setup exe from the mounted ISO and do a repair install. A whole lot less confusing.

 

NavyLCDR: I followed your instructions. I deleted the old stuff and also more files so I now have 35GB of free space.

In my case the virtual drive letter is L: I mounted the iso from a folder in Documents to where it was downloaded to. I opened the CMD as administrator (you didn't mention admin. but I did that anyway). I entered "Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:L:\Sources /LimitAccess " and it began to run and immediately held at 20% for 13 minutes and my C: drive was being accessed. After 13 minutes it quickly went to 100% and stated " Error 0x8000f081f The source files could not be found. Use the "source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. ..." Please advise.

 

I just noticed this:
DISM - Repair Windows 10 Image - Windows 10 Forums

Mount the ISO file and try:
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:wim:L:\sources\install.wim:1 /limitaccess

or
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:wim:L:\sources\install.wim:2 /limitaccess

Assuming your mounted ISO file still gives you drive letter L:

 

Thanks very much for those suggestions. I tried both of NavyLCDR's commands and the results were exactly the same as the one tried before them.What do you suggest next?

" I agree with the suggestion of running setup exe from the mounted ISO and do a repair install. " Is this a different approach?