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@Solti, you can use WinPE to clean install Windows. You can also use WinPE to run many portable apps such as Firefox and Macrorit Partition Expert.
Hey guys, why does DISM in Powershell take so much longer to run? I can only assume it is much more complete?
alrighty, got a problem with dism here. I think it might've had to do with the latest windows 10 CU release. it was the one that gave me the bug where the "update and shutdown/restart" options wouldnt vanish after the update finished, until I let windows update run for a long while and give me an all clear
I can use the checkhealth command, but using either restorehealth or the scanhealth gives me an "error:3" error msg. something about dism can't find the thing or somesuch. im wondering if I can use dism from a windows 10 usb stick, but I wonder if that would even fix the error:3 thing in the first place
Hello,
Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing the command prompt with the full error message to help ID what the issue may be.
If all else fails, you should also be able to do a repair install of Windows 10 to fix it.
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
here you go, a screenshot and the dism log file
dism stuffz.zip
same error, error:3
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look, im making a windows 10 usb stick, and I also made a macrium reflect backup. im going to try to use the dism command from the stick and maybe hope that will fix this error:3 error
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alright, had no luck with the USB stick or the WinPE recovery partition from my desktop. I tried to point DISM to my C: drive from both the recovery partition DISM, and the USB stick DISM. using diskpart and list volume, Drive F: was my C: drive from the recovery partition, and Drive E: was my C: drive from the usb stick, but my secondary drive where I transferred the desktop folder to was and still remains the D: drive for the recovery partition and usb stick DISM, so I tried "dism /image:E:\ /cleanup-image /restorehealth /Source:wim:[remove this]D:\Users\OmegaNerd\Desktop\Win10_21H1_English_x64\sources\install.wim:1 /limitaccess" and "dism /image:E:\ /cleanup-image /restorehealth /Source:wim:[remove this]D:\Users\OmegaNerd\Desktop\Win10_21H1_English_x64\source\install.wim:1 /limitaccess" with the WinPE and usb stick, it kept giving me an Error 50 I think?
I don't know what the proper dism syntax im missing was, so I decided F it, and repair-installed windows 10 and DISM was fixed. I can run /scanhealth just fine, and I can assume /restorehealth works also. I seriously blame the KB5006670 update to windows 10 21h1. the thing immediately gave me problems that I had to wait out for them to go away, but I never bothered to dism /scanhealth after.
@BrokenDaily,
If you like, a repair install should be able to fix it without losing anything.
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
I repair about 10 computers daily and one issue I repeatedly have a problem with Restoring Windows 10 failing. Having read a lot I have a routine to Repair with DISM using an ISO. It seems to be hit and miss and I can't find all the reasons.
to repair with DISM from esd/wim, does it have to be the same build, bits, oem/Retial/VL etc? home/pro Architecture
I've created a batch that identifies the Verison/build of windows from a non-bootable OS.
I'm trying to make it automatically select from several versions of install.esd to repair the image with DISM
Am I off base? I can't create a recovery disk from a system that doesn't boot, especially one the image is corrupt.
Does anyone have insight on a good method?