Total Boot Failure After Removing Second SSD - Win 10

Anonymous
2022-07-14T20:03:36+00:00

Windows 10: I have a primary disc for the OS and a secondary disc for just data (or maybe not???). I took out the secondary disc (in order to a bigger one in) and rebooted. I got a boot failure and Windows automatically tried to repair the issue, but it failed. I then replaced the secondary disc (so system is back as it was), but this did not solve the problem. During the "automatic repair process" it must have broken something.

The only thing that comes to mind is I may have split the pagefile to both discs, so when I took the data disc out it may have gotten confused.

So far, I have seemingly tried all of the "safe mode" options, other than than an option to restore a new Win 10 OS (last resort). I'd like to be able to at least somehow get into the OS so I can can deactivate licenses and put them on a new computer. At least some way to transition stuff to a new computer.

I guess in prior Windows versions (I'm still old school dating to 3.11), but this thing would not have happened. It all started with an automatic repair process that changed things such that putting the drives back "as is" didn't resolve it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T19:55:41+00:00

    Yeah, Ultimate would have upgraded to Pro, so index 6 was correct. If I understand correctly, (It was used in this case) but you still get the following error message, whether /ScratchDir is used or not....

    "

    Error: 4448

    An error occurred accessing the temporary folder E:\Windows\Temp\C7D2F3DE-C3DA-4CF3-9018-C82B21BB9D6

    Ensure the path to the temporary folder exists and that you have Read/Writer permissions on the folder.

    "

    It looks like you have permission to run the command, but the command doesn't have permission to use the files. Later, I'll boot to the recovery environment & try it there myself. Did you boot to the external one on the Win 10 Installation USB drive? I'll try that one.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T16:46:17+00:00

    I believe I have Win 10 Pro, but not sure. I upgraded from Win 7 Ultimate, so not sure what it became.

    In my case, it was item 6.

    However, both approaches still give the same read/write permission issue. No idea what that is about. Perhaps that is a clue itself? Why the heck is that happening?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T05:17:39+00:00

    Hey, same issue we can face. There is an issue in my ssd and after changing it my pc not work correctly.

    And my site speed is to slow how can we do.

    SITE. https://gepco.org.pk/.

    waiting for response.. Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T05:11:25+00:00

    Looks like SFC is failing to initialize itself, whatever that involves. I wish it would give an error message. I still hope it will work, though, if we can get DISM to work first. DISM might repair something SFC is looking for. OK, let's try using your Install.esd as a source for DISM. That is on your Win 10 Installation USB drive.

    Volume 0 G DVD-ROM 0B

    Volume 1 C Data NTFS Partition 100MB

    Volume 2 E OS NTFS Partition 237GB <<<Windows partition

    Volume 3 F NTFS Partition 860MB Hidden

    Volume 4 D ESD-USB FAT32 Removable 14GB <<<Installation USB

    First, we must discover the correct Index number to use. If your Windows Edition is Home, the index likely is 1. But enter Get-WimInfo to find the correct index that goes with your Edition. Then, use that number at the end of the Cleanup-Image command...

    DISM /Get-Wiminfo /Wimfile:D:\Sources\Install.esd

    DISM /Image:E:\ /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:ESD:D:\Sources\install.esd:1

    I guess try with & without /ScratchDir:E:\Windows\Temp.

    Afterward, I pray SFC will work. I hope that does it. Good luck. Here were my results...

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:e:\sources\install.esd

    Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

    Version: 10.0.19041.844

    Details for image : e:\sources\install.esd

    Index : 1

    Name : Windows 10 Home

    Description : Windows 10 Home

    Size : 14,826,317,709 bytes

    Index : 2

    Name : Windows 10 Home N

    Description : Windows 10 Home N

    Size : 14,047,483,249 bytes

    Index : 3

    Name : Windows 10 Home Single Language

    Description : Windows 10 Home Single Language

    Size : 14,824,381,486 bytes

    Index : 4

    Name : Windows 10 Education

    Description : Windows 10 Education

    Size : 15,074,233,945 bytes

    Index : 5

    Name : Windows 10 Education N

    Description : Windows 10 Education N

    Size : 14,312,027,229 bytes

    Index : 6

    Name : Windows 10 Pro

    Description : Windows 10 Pro

    Size : 15,071,438,212 bytes

    Index : 7

    Name : Windows 10 Pro N

    Description : Windows 10 Pro N

    Size : 14,309,112,849 bytes

    The operation completed successfully.

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:esd:E:\Sources\install.esd:1

    Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

    Version: 10.0.19041.844

    Image Version: 10.0.19044.1826

    [==========================100.0%==========================] The restore operation completed successfully.

    The operation completed successfully.

    I'm booted to Windows, so /Online is used. The /Source option won't work with /CheckHealth. It just kept saying, "The source option is not recognized in this context". So, I had to guess it needed /RestoreHealth. The other guess was that it needed to be in the recovery environment, but I didn't want to go there.

    Great info here...

    https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7808-use-dism-repair-windows-10-image.html How to Repair Windows 10 Image using DISM

    But he didn't say it won't work with /CheckHealth which I always prefer to do before the other.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-07-19T23:30:14+00:00

    Regarding the SFC command, the cursor goes to the next line (on the left) and just blinks. It was like that for 10+ hrs.

    Using DIR E:\Windows\Temp shoes it does exist

    Using the attrib command on E:\Windows\Temp, it shows the same as yours (nothing indicating R, S, or H)

    Using attrib on the E:\Windows\Temp\abc123xyz.....(the long file name) just says it doesn't exist

    And when using DIR on E:\Windows\Temp, you can see there is no such directory. So it would appear it never actually writes it...so of course it can't subsequently access it.

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