Thanks, yeah I figured that part was pretty straight forward.

Going to wait to close this thread to see if the reinstall actually works. Thanks for the help everyone!

Yeah custom install

I deleted all partitions except the one that contained all my user files. It gave me the pop-up that my files would be moved to the windows.old folder

Sorry for the lack of update. I decided it wasn't worth the goose chase and now I'm reinstalling windows. Though, after the installer restarted my computer, i still got a BCD error on the default...

How do i know what package to remove? just go by date?

Not sure what you wanted to see from the DISM list but here's the last bit, ran on C:

- - - Updated - - -

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Any other ideas from anyone? :cry:

Haven't tried it but not sure how to do it without booting into windows...

Is there any way to reinstall Windows but not lose my programs? or alternatively, any tricks for backing up my programs onto an external drive?

I tried

bcdboot C:\Windows /s S: /f ALL

Yesterday but didn't work. would UEFI instead of ALL after the /f switch matter?

Thanks zbook, that Ubuntu backup trick is super good to know. Took forever though, I have a lot of files on here.

Seagate test gave 100% pass. Had trouble running the bootrec commands though which...

Thanks for the tips! Unfortunately, no luck. I booted up the MR USB and followed the "Fix windows boot problems" prompt but as soon as it restarted my PC, it just went back to the same BSOD with the...

It's a UEFI, single disk. Here's a pic of my diskpart
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I’ve got an old Acer AspireX running windows 10. Tuesday night, I tried to install the update for 21H2 and for whatever reason, it broke something with my boot files, causing windows to get stuck in...