Windows 8 Repairing a corrupt system image.

[Kenneth LaMontagne]

Using DISM to "Cleanup-Image" "CheckHealth" and then "RestoreHealth" I am at a loss on how to direct DISM to the "Source" CustomRefresh.WIM on my second computer which is on my LAN. I made sure that Windows Update is available through my firewall but DISM is unable to repair the image this way.
Can someone give me the correct path?

 

[Josephur]

Can you give us more specifics as to how you created this recovery image? (did you use recimg?) Also what command line are you using, etc?

 

[Kenneth LaMontagne]

Okay. I upgraded one of my computers from 7 Home Premium to 8.1 Pro last week. Had trouble with a PCI-E card which turned out to be a defective PCI-E slot in the MOBO(had to perform several shut downs after lock ups) . On Saturday I had time to check to see if the image was healthy with the command "dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth".
After the scanhealth completed it gave me this "The component store is repairable. The operation completed successfully."
I then ran "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth". and the result is

"Error: 0x800f0906" The source files could not be downloaded. Use the "source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://fw.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=24377."

Here are the options to Configure a Windows Repair Source:

"You can use a mounted Windows image from a WIM file as a source to restore optional features and repair a corrupted operating system. For example, c:\test\mount\Windows. For more information about capturing a Windows image as a WIM file, see Capture Images of Hard Disk Partitions Using DISM.

• You can use a running Windows installation as a source to restore optional features by sharing the c:\Windows folder on your network.

• You can use a Windows side-by-side folder from a network share or from a removable media, such as the Windows DVD, as the source of the files. For example, z:\sources\SxS.

• You can use a Windows image (.wim) file on a network share as a source to restore optional features. You must specify the index of the Windows image in the .wim file that you want to use and you must use a Wim: prefix in the path to identify this file format. For example, to specify index 3 in a file named contoso.wim, type: Wim:\\network\images\contoso.wim:3."

I have connected the computers through my LAN and should be able to use the shared the c:\Windows folder from my second computer running 8.1 Pro also.

I need the command line to do this.


The attached file is what I found in the DISM Log for this error. I only include the warnings and errors that were listed.

Thanks so much for your help,
Ken

 

[Kenneth LaMontagne]

I found this solution on "The Windows Club" web site and it worked for me. Here is what I typed as a command to accomplish the fixism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:j:\winsxs /LimitAccess (J: is the drive I saved the winsxs folder from my second computer to)

"After saving the winsxs folder from a win8.1 64bit system that ran dism okay to my portable HD I used it as the source to run "Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Sourcepath to source) /LimitAccess" on my problem PC (also a
win8.1 64bit system)."