Windows 10: Running DISM, it refuses to recognize the /source I specify..

Hi all..

Im trying to help a friend out, his laptop packed it in the other day. Its a ~6 month old Asus laptop, Win10 Home (10.0.17134.1)..

Fault is upon booting, the ASUS logo and spinning circle come up .. and then once enough time has passed and you'd expect a login screen, the screen stays blank, hard drive access seems to continue.. and if i move my finger around on the touchpad, a mouse cursor will come in and out of the blackness, occasionally transitioning into the blue circle..

Booted into WinRE, command prompt.. used sfc /scannow, it found some errors it couldnt fix.

Ran dism checkhealth, scanheath and then restorehealth.. his factory install doesnt seem to have a SXS directory, so I extracted an install.wim from the sources directory of an 1803 build ISO I had here.

My restorehealth run fails consistently, as it tells me it cant find the wim Im pointing it at.

dism /image:c:\ /cleanup-image /restorehealth /scratchdir:c:\scratch /source:wim:e:\install.wim:1

E: is a hard drive sitting in a USB dock, attached to the system Im messing with.. I can navigate there and see the install.wim file sitting there, in the cmd window..

dism log attached, any help very much appreciated..

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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.

 

Can't get SFC and DISM to work anymore on Win10

have you tried specifying the source for DISM? We have had a few computers at work give the unable to find source error on Online DISM

 

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?