Windows 10: sfc and dism fail

Discus and support sfc and dism fail in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I had to restart my PC today using the power button after I ran into an issue with the USB controller stopped working resulting in no keyboard nor... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by WebMaximus, Sep 26, 2018.

  1. sfc and dism fail


    I had to restart my PC today using the power button after I ran into an issue with the USB controller stopped working resulting in no keyboard nor mouse. I managed to RDP into the PC from my mobile phone and thought I was able to restart my PC successfully. But the screen never came on again showing 'No signal'. So in the end, I had to shut it down by holding the physical power button depressed for a couple of seconds.

    After this all seemed good and the PC and Windows started up just fine with no issues. Still, I figured it might be a good idea to check my disks as well as running sfc /scannow to make sure I didn't end up with any corrupt files as a result of the "hard" shutdown.

    No disk issues found but running sfc /scannow gave me the normal message corrupt files were found that couldn't be fixed. I then tried Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth as well as Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:wim:L:\sources\install.wim:1 with and without the /limitaccess switch but still no go. Ended at about 90% throwing error 3017 and telling me the requested operation failed and that a system reboot is required to roll back changes made.

    Here's CBS.log as well as dism.log. Did find some info about a file called storport.sys in the CBS log. Not really sure what that file/driver does though let alone how to fix it if it indeed is corrupt.

    I'm on Win 10 1803 Build 17134.286 with all the latest MS fixes applied as of today.

    Many thanks in advance for any tips on how to sort this one!

    :)
     
    WebMaximus, Sep 26, 2018
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  2. 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:
    https://dismgui.codeplex.com/releases/view/133331

    Which again wants .wim file and refuses to work with esd.
     
    RejZoR, Sep 26, 2018
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  3. 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, Sep 26, 2018
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  4. dsmith888 Win User

    sfc and dism fail

    Sfc /scannow and DISM /Online fails


    My Lenovo T400 with Windows 10 version 1511 works just fine. But I do find that these 2 commands fail me. Logs are attached. I do want to preserve some applications that I have installed so suggestions on how I can repair or upgrade would be appreciated. It's my understanding dism must be functional to upgrade the OS.

    1) sfc /scannow
    2) dism /online /?
     
    dsmith888, Sep 26, 2018
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