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System File Check For Windows 10
Boggin:
What you do is change the boot order to change it to CD/DVD before the HDD - insert the disk then press enter.
In Win 7 and hopefully in Win 10, after the prompt to press any key to boot from the media and after the files have loaded, you should be presented with an inverse window with Windows Setup (EMS Enabled) highlighted where you would press enter.
Follow the prompts to navigate to the Recovery Environment, making a note of where it says the OS is located and at the command prompt enter (assuming C )
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=C:\ /offwindir=C:\Windows
and see what that reports - there's a space before each forward slash.
There's also the cmds in an elevated cmd prompt in Windows you could try which are -
dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup
and follow that with dism /online /ckeanup-image /restorehealth and run the sfc /scannow afterwards to see if it still reports errors.
The Dism cmds could hang at 20% for a while but wait for each to complete and give their reports.
Roy Whitethread:
Boggin, when I booted from the Win 10 DVD I got the expected options to install or repair. I chose repair, which is what I assume you meant by navigate to Recovery.
You say note where the OS is located, but I didn't know how to do that, however I assumed that since I booted from the Win 10 DVD It would be C.
I chose the command prompt window, but it opened with X:\Sources>-I assume I need it to open with C:\Windows\System32> and if that is correct how do I change the command line to that?
Please advise.
Boggin:
No, you are right where you need to be and that is the cmd prompt you get when you boot up outside of Windows.
To find the correct partition letter, at the cmd prompt enter bcdedit |find "osdevice" and that will produce the letter you need to use in the sfc cmd.
I'm not sure if it is clear in the forum but that is a Pipe symbol before find and as you probably know, it is the upper case of \
Did you try those Dism cmds before booting up with the install disk or was my edit in my last post too late for you to notice ?
Roy Whitethread:
When I ran the bcdedit |find "osdevice" command the command prompt window displayed the following:
osdevice partition=D:
osdevice partition=C:
and below that X:\Sources>
What should I enter after that?
Apart from the above, FWIW your edit still hasn't appeared on the web page for this topic.
It's unrelated, but how do I set the time zone for my account?
Boggin:
I didn't actually put Edit into that post - just added some Dism commands you could try from within Windows.
That's a strange one with the partition letters unless it is still seeing Win 7 or your previous OS.
When you boot with an install disk and select Repair your Computer, it does a Searching for the OS.
For it to list both partitions, the OSs it has found would have been listed on that page before you clicked on Next.
It may be quicker to enter exit to close the cmd window, remove the disk and hit Restart and then go through the procedure of booting up with disk again rather that running the sfc cmd on both partitions.
In the Run Offline System File Checker section of this article you will see the bit I mean where it searches for and locates the OS and you would click on the OS you want to repair before hitting next, but in most cases where just one OS is installed, that's the one that is highlighted so you just hit Next unless you want to try the restore from an image option.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/run-system-file-checker-safe-mode-boot-time
For it to list both D: and C: I can only think that it is also seeing the previous OS, but it can still see a single OS as in D: which is why you either need to make a note of the location or run that cmd.
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