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Trying to run DISM from bootable USB to repair Windows Installation...
Hi all!
Quick explanation. I've been given a laptop by a tech-illiterate lady that belonged to her late husband who just passed from cancer. It's running Win10 Home. Supposedly the Windows Updates were failing for a LONG time now (months, years?) Something is seriously messed up with the Windows Update system as no updates will go through and something is now messed up with Windows, itself (when booting normally to Windows, nothing network-related works, right clicking on anything crashes Explorer.exe, etc, etc).
I ran an SFC /scannow from a Windows 10 bootable (it wouldn't work from booted Windows) and it said it found things that were corrupt but were not fixable. (I only ran SFC once)
I'm now trying to run DISM from said bootable USB in the command line to fix the Windows image on the hard drive, but can't seem to get the command right.
This is a freshly created Windows 10 bootable USB. I want to run DISM command from there to fix the install on hard drive using the files on the USB. Is there anybody who could tell me the exact command I would need? I've poured over MS TechNet articles and still can't seem to get it to work...help would be very much appreciated! The Windows install drive on the hard drive when booted from the USB is drive is drive E, and the USB is drive X.
I tried the command:
...and get a "Unable to access Image' error.Code:dism /Image:E:\offline /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:X:\windows /limitaccess
I REALLY don't want to have to reinstall if I can help it because her husband was apparently using a lot of cracked software (which I don't condone at all), but if I have to do a reinstall she will lose access to things like her emails in Outlook 2007 because I refuse to find and reinstall a cracked version of Office. She also can't afford to go purchase a legitimate version of Office either....
Thanks for any assistance!