[SOLVED] Use DISM restore health to repair offline Windows 10 disk in enclosure from Windows 11 machine ?

[David_652]

I pulled the Windows 10 disk from another computer because it was corrupted enough that I couldn't run any repair tools or reinstall Windows from within that system with the hard drive booted. I put it in an enclosure attached to my Windows 11 machine. I ran CHKDSK on the Windows 10 drive and it came through with no issues at all.

Then I ran SFC and it found corrupted files and fixed some but could not fix all of them. So, I am interested in running DISM from the Windows 11 machine that is booted from the Windows 10 disk in the enclosure. Is it possible? What command string should I use?

 

[TerryLaze]

What are you even trying to do?!
DISM will write an image of windows back to the drive, do you have such an image? Is it on the defective drive?

Did you actually boot the system from the disk in the enclosure? Because that should not be possible.

 

[David_652]

" What are you even trying to do?! "

<<I am trying to fix the corrupted Windows 10 drive. I have used CHKDSK successfully and SFC with only marginal success.>>

" DISM will write an image of windows back to the drive, do you have such an image? Is it on the defective drive? "

<<I imagine there is one on the defective drive. I also have a Windows 10 ISO image on the Windows 11 machine. How do I use the image on the Windows 10 drive? Is there somewhere else I can get an image that will work?>>

" Did you actually boot the system from the disk in the the enclosure? Because that should not be possible "

<<No, I did not boot the system from the disk in the enclosure. I am repairing the disk in the enclosure from the Windows 11 system. I was able to run CHKDSK on the Windows 10 disk this way, and also SFC in this way.>>

So I need to find/use an image, and get the command string that will source the image and repair the disk. Makes sense?

 

[David_652]

I fixed it.

 

[COLGeek]

I fixed it.

How?

 

[David_652]

How?

It's been a minute but I ultimately got it to boot from the USB stick, formatted the partitions and it was able to install from there.