Windows 10: Win10 BSOD (critical process died) and DISM component store help

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I figured I'd give it a shot, as I have spent DAYS trying to get my drive to boot so I can properly take an image or do a "repair upgrade"



I recently built a brand new PC because my old motherboard from 2012 took a dump. I thought getting the data from my old Intel 240gb SSD would be no problem, but it has proved to be the most challenging ever. I have SO many hours into this, googling issues, error codes, trying different software, boot disks, recovery USB's, repairs, etc. When I plug the drive into my new system, via SATA to USB or just directly SATA to motherboard, I can see the data on the drive, but I just can't get it to boot. I have tried everything... dism, (component store cannot be repaired), sfc, chkdsk (chkdsk says the drive is 100% healthy, no bad sectors), etc. I have tried taking an image of the drive / windows partition with Macrium and AOMEI backupper and it successfully takes the image, but when I try to restore to my new SSD (1TB NVME) I run into the same boot issues. It is not a UEFI vs Legacy BIOS issue, as my old mobo was UEFI and AHCI as well, not IDE. I've done all of the troubleshooting I could find on the web, googled every error message, messed with diskpart, with bootrec rebuildbcd, bootrec fixboot commands, etc. I suspect maybe some sort of corruption has happened with windows system files, or the registry, OR it has something to do with my new drive being GPT and this old source drive being MBR. I feel I have tried EVERYTHING on my own, and usually tech issues are no problem for me.



I REALLY don't want to start over, as I have years worth of settings, customizations, programs, app data, user data, etc on the SSD, and I know you can't just simply copy and paste the \Windows or the \Users directory into a new installation of win10 without all hell breaking loose.



My ultimate goal is to get this drive booting properly so that I can properly image it / clone it to my new NVME SSD in my new machine so that all of my user data, software, customizations, app data, etc are on the new system, as if nothing changed except for much better and faster hardware.



So here is the closest I've gotten to figuring the issue out before I hit dead ends. I've googled every error code and every log file entry from DISM I find pertinent. I suspect my windows image component store is messed up and/or my registry, but there's GOT to be a way to fix it. I have uploaded the commands and the responses I got, as well as the log files they generated.

Here is what I get when I do dism /checkhealth



x:\windows\system32>dism /image:c:\ /cleanup-image /checkhealthDeployment Im - Pastebin.com



Here is what I get when I attempt sfc with any parameters as well:



"Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation." (No log file)



Here is what I get when I try to restore the image with the .esd file windows media creation tool provides:



x:\windows\system32>dism /image:c:\ /cleanup-image /restorehealth /source:esd:G: - Pastebin.com



I have triple-checked the commands to make sure my syntax is correct and that all of the paths, drive letters, etc are all correct and the files exist. From here, I'm not really sure what to do or if it's even possible to get dism to play nice and repair the "component store" (which I have no idea what it is)



Also, I forgot to mention. Everything on my old system appeared to be working fine last week. This all started when I attempted to put my new graphics card (MSI RTX 2060) into the system. This is when all hell broke loose. I have no idea if that is what caused all of this, and if so, HOW....or if it's just a complete coincidence. Previously I had an old ass GTX 560 TI, so quite a bit newer graphics card but I still for the life of me can't figure out how in the world this could cause windows to be messed up to the point of not booting and have it's "component store" corrupted / unrepairable. Alternatively, I suppose it could have been a windows update to mess everything up.



Am I completely screwed if DISM tells me "the component store cannot be repaired"? There's a LOT of stuff in those log files, stuff that's even way above my head. Maybe if I could fix them, I could get dism to play nice and fix the component store and then hopefully boot back up? I have tried doing all of the windows USB repair / startup repair with no luck. The furthest I've gotten to is getting it to the spinning dots of "attempting repairs" and it just stays stuck that way forever. I feel I'm SO CLOSE to fixing this issue, because all of my files are there, I just need to get it to boot and then moved over to my new system so all of my data and settings and software remain in place.



Do I have any options? When I let it try to boot on it's own, I always get the BSOD "Critical Process Died."

Thank you SO MUCH for any help / suggestions. My computer is my livelihood and how I put food on the table, and it's very hard to work and be productive without all of my data / software, etc.

:)