Use DISM to Repair Windows 10 Image  

No folder is still there but is quite smaller; now only 2.38 gb as opposed 12+gb. Ran it a second time and still there, now 2.28gb.

Here is an article on how to take ownership using File Explorer.

Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key in Windows 10

DonCuthbert said:

Here is an article on how to take ownership using File Explorer.

Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key in Windows 10 | Tutorials

Used another prgm and took owner with a reg entry and was able to move all but 25 mb to another drive, so now maybe I can delete it now. Will keep posted.

Was able to finally get rid of all the pro folder thru deletes and cut/paste to other drive and then deleted it. Gonna stop any more repairs for now, since I have enough working to do what I need to do on pc. Thanks all.

DonCuthbert said:

Your issue is different than the topic of this thread. You can use DISM to repair Windows, even if you only can boot to the Command Prompt, as you say, but your Windows folder may be OK, even if it says "inaccessible boot device". So you may not even require DISM repair on your Windows. You can check it using sfc.

Code:

sfc /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=C:\ OFFWINDIR=C:\Windows

However, in Repair mode Windows might not be on C:. It could be on D: or another letter, so the command would need to be adjusted.

The System partition is separate from the Windows/Boot partition. The System partition can be entirely deleted and rebuilt without changing the files at C:\Windows. It is easier on a UEFI BIOS-mode device, because the winre.wim file (which is what you are booting to when your normal boot fails) is on a separate partition for UEFI. In Legacy BIOS mode, winre.wim is on the System partition, so has to be moved elsewhere if you want to recreate the System partition.

Hi, sorry that I'm somehow off topic but it seems to me that DISM was the only tool that will make that Win10 Pro of mine to work again but haven't enough time to "play" with it.

I booted from a Windows 10 x86 edition (I have upgraded from a Windows 7 Pro x86, EN, to Windows 10 Pro) and I saw that now my system partition is (in cmd) E:\. I gived (without much hope) the command that you show me above and here it was:

Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service.

What now? I will try to reboot and chose another option... Don't know anymore... I'm somehow stuck. Anyone can help?
My BIOS is non-UEFI (classic one ;-) ).

zbook said:

adm2019,

Save all of the important files to another drive or to the cloud.

See if you can make a Kyhi boot rescue flash drive:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

If there are problems downloading the tool then you can use Ubuntu:
Create a bootable USB stick on Windows | Ubuntu tutorials

Linux to the rescue! How Ubuntu can help a computer in distress | PCWorld

Using Kyhi boot rescue test the drive using HD Tune: (free version)
https://www.hdtune.com/

Using Ubuntu test the drive using HD Sentinel for Linux: (free version)
Hard Disk Sentinel - Free Linux version

Use a camera or smartphone camera as needed.
Save images for all test results.

Ten Forums has a forum for BSOD.
You can open a new thread in the forum.

If troubleshooting steps cannot fix the underlying problem you can plan to perform one of the following steps:
a) custom install (saves files, reinstall applications and drivers)
if the above fails then:
b) clean install (deletes files, reinstall applications and drivers)

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I'm interested in saving ALL the programms or MOST of them, more than other things, because I have apps that I don't have anymore the installation kit or the sn.

My Documents are saved on a separate partition from SYSTEM.

Maybe a I can make portable all installed apps? How I do that?

I will follow your advices zbook

Can use DISM for. ESD(windows is compressed) repair below without converting to .WIM:

I extracted information from Brink and others to develop a scheme to repair window .ESD file using DISM. If you patiently read below you will find the source easy to paste and accomplish the repair.

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Run as admin & fix # of OS and letter of installation flash drive:
! Be sure to use the right Drive letter so likely replace the E.

1-inset OS flash,2- copy 1^st string to Word doc if letter not same as your flash; otherwise just run to see number, 3-change the letter of OS flash if necessary, in Word then 4-copy corrected string and paste into cmd as admin. 5-when know letter and number = run second string
Get OS # with 1st string = dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:E:\sources\install.esd

2nd string Get DISM fix for ESD from flash drive = Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:esd:E:\Sources\Install.esd:6 /limitaccess