With the recovery/boot ISO you should be able to reinstall the system part (without loosing apps or anything): https://neosmart.net/wiki/windows-10-repair-installation/
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Csaba. I'm still trying to get a system running enough to be able > to use those tools <gasp>. I have a Win10 recovery USB and a Win10 > bootable ISO but have not had much luck even on the command line. Still > trying. > > Howard > > On 11/23/2016 01:10 PM, Csaba Toth wrote: > >> I had some serious corruption due to the failing system SSD. This was a >> Win 2012R2, but WIn10 has this functionality too: >> 1. DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth >> This restores any corrupted *backup* of system packages >> 2. sfc /SCANNOW >> This restores the system based on the backup packages. >> >> This brought my system back alive and working since then. >> More about the mechanism: >> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947821 >> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824869.aspx?f= >> 255&MSPPError=-2147217396 >> >> If you run into this, CheckSUR is only for pre Win8: >> http://www.thewindowsclub.com/checksur-system-update-readiness-tool >> Use DISM. >> >> I haven't tried this, maybe worth a look: >> http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/repairing-corrupt-file-systems >> -vms-repair-volume/ >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Howard White <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Helping a neighbor with a dead Win10 system. Cut to chase - the >> Windows partition is corrupt. Mind you, of the 900GB allocated, >> only 46GB are used. >> >> First thought was to try to make a copy of the disk with clonezilla. >> Lesson one, overcome the "hibernate" crap that Win10 now uses to >> speed start up. Go change your settings now to do a full power off >> and not just hibernate. I'll demonstrate at the LinuxFest, December >> 3... >> >> There is a lovely package of utilities (in Ubuntu at least) called >> ntfs3g. Therein are programs such as ntfsclone and ntfsresize. I >> secondly reduced the size of the Win10 partition, in part to fit >> other drives I have laying around. Thirdly, I attempted to complete >> my disk copy effort (having disk to disk copied all of the "sda" >> partitions with clonezilla) with ntfsclone --rescue. That happened >> and the bad sectors were noted. >> >> At this point, the Windows boot loader doesn't have a clue trying to >> boot from "sdb." Next thought is to try to set up a dual boot >> system so that maybe grub will boot Win10... >> >> Oh, and did you know that fdisk doesn't speak GPT? 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