Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade  

memathews said:

A quick THANKS for this thread and the great information enclosed.

Over the weekend my desktop blue-screened, then last night rebooted with a "repair" that almost destroyed the OS (Win10 1607). Start menu stopped operating (except right-click), File Explorer would bring only one window up at a time, multiple programs said they were corrupted, the desktop disappeared every ten minutes or so and forced a reboot, RUN did not work properly, PowerShell did not work properly, chkdsk was unable to run, a real mess. Also, SpinRite in level 2 did nothing, which is rare.

The thread Solved Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation - Page 4 - Windows 10 Forums was excellent in giving me some hope after sfc did not work. The instructions in the thread where this message is posted were excellent in guiding me to a set of solutions that solved the issue with about 6 hours of work. This is my main workstation for general work as well as digital video production and podcast production, so this was important to get running again.

Thank you all for participating, contributing questions and answers. You convinced me to join the forum, although I hope I don't have additional problems to report.

@memathews, Welcome to Tenforums! Glad to hear the info was helpful and got you back up and running. I hope you don't have any more problems, either. Feel free, please, to contribute. Pipe up in any thread with any suggestions of help you think may work. All input is welcome. Enjoy!

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memathews said:

Thx, I'll check that out. As for contributing help, I seem to be able to mess more up than I fix, but I'll contribute when possible. ;-)

Then best get a system image program like Macrium Reflect(paid or free, which is good enough actually):
Macrium Reflect Free

And this thread in the forums is where you can see when there is an update, and if you should update the recovery drive:
Solved New Macrium Reflect Update - Windows 10 Forums

And here is an excellent tutorial on how to set it up and use:
Macrium Reflect - Backup Restore - Windows 10 Forums

bima1997 said:

Hello everyone, I want to ask something :)

So, I'm doing an In-place Upgrade right now without turning off secure boot in my UEFI settings.

Will there any errors or something that can ruin my system?

Thanks in advance.

@bima1997
No sir, should not be a problem. You're already up and running in the OS when you start the in-place upgrade/repair. It will prep the files it needs and boot a few times, but because it's booting as part of the process, there will be no issues. The UEFI Safe Boot deals with booting from external media, like DVDs or a USB thumb drive.

Hope this helps, and good luck with your repair! TC

Do a good system image backup first, just to be safe. Good practice.

bima1997 said:

@f14tomcat
Ah, I see. Thanks for your fast reply

You're welcome! To be safe, as always, do a backup first. Good luck. TC

Hello dlfetters48, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

Yes, you can use a Windows 10 DVD as well. When you open the DVD, you would just pick up at step 4C.

A repair install is used to repair your current installation by basically doing an in-place upgrade using the same build so you don't lose anything during the process.