Booted windows 10 but its corrputed

[raw rapids]

could you show and explain your problem with Disk Managemant

show which partitions are used up, where your windows partition is etc.

that's why a nice infographic with Disk Management is better than words sometimes

you can rename the disks temporarily, or just censor them with MS Paint or something

could you explain, using drive letters, eg C:, D: what exactly do you want

hm, a folder seems problematic

so you don't have H:\Windows, but instaed H:\some\folder\Windows

could you shrink H: and then copy the 180 GB there?

in the windows folder on H:, do you have \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi?

do tell more

output of bcdedit would be useful

not relevant

bcdedit would be useful

I can understand that, but that doesn't help, I'd like to figure out what you've configured using it

there's like at least 4 things to change

my idea is, using bcdedit, copy your current configuration, modify the new copy to point to H:\some\folder\Windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcdedit-command-line-options?view=windows-11

doesn't matter

will you be doing that? do you need help w/ it?

sure, first I'll need the output of bcdedit

from an admin cmd

you know that I can't see your display, right?

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean

sure, go ahead

okay, could you send bcdedit of the "not working" state

it's literary one command to type

bcdedit /copy {current}

then bcdedit and send a screenshot 📸

then skip to the second step for now

is this windows 10 or 11?

and H: is?

try ```
bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Windows 10 (Copy)"

you know step 2

step 2 shouldn't take this long...

that was not step 2. but ok

what did you use to change it?

you must have used a program of some sort to change the C: to H:...

alright, you're probably still not done

let me see what you've done so far: run bcdedit and send a screenshot 📸

interesting turn of events, hopefully that's not about your install on C:

alright, try to boot to the original windows, to C:!

physically unplug H: and then try to boot to C:

[raw rapids]

^

and this is the path on the disk?

this seems like it should work

the only question is whether the H: in your current windows matches the H: when during the bootup sequence

right lol

update the two lines and you should be good to go

well try looking at the log file now

and double-check the two paths in bcdedit

yeah you could run bcdedit in WinRE

it should be the same

but there's no harm in trying

yeah, it's getting kinda late here as well

good night and good luck

[raw rapids]

any updates?

[raw rapids]

why do you actually need it to boot?

I mean you already have access to all files...

[raw rapids]

I don't know what's wrong

best thing you can do right now is to read log files

to narrow it down

event viewer, srtTrail

[lofty anchor]

If Boot is the problem, have you tried adding the boot using bcdboot with the new windows installation location?

[raw rapids]

A blind goose chase, Windows provides plenty of tools to troubleshoot the boot process

wouldn't hurt to have two pairs of eyes looking at the logs

[raw rapids]

hmm, yeah true

[raw rapids]

good!

I think there are BCD tools on linux

yeah, and PE has more tools then regular windows for the boot stuff

let me know if you run into trouble

or if you used a weird way to fix it

[vocal jacinth]

what are you even trying to do now after 260 comments done?

[vocal jacinth]

ya wanna dual boot?

[raw rapids]

could you post your Disk Management situation, and the current bcdedit configuration

[raw rapids]

Good morning!

Do you have a windows installer usb? @glossy basalt

In hopes of not breaking your existing system, I suggest you physically unplug your C: disk, and only leave D: plugged in. That way you can run bcdboot D:\Windows without unknowns: (existing bcd database, two systems to target, etc.)

I'll be working with this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcdboot-command-line-options-techref-di when telling you bcdboot command.

I think that bcdboot.exe is only available in Windows PE/WinRE, so you'll need a Windows USB (as I've said in the messages above)

[raw rapids]

They mention:

Set up or repair the boot menu on a dual-boot PC. If you've installed more than one copy of Windows on a PC, you can use BCDBoot to add or repair the boot menu.
But I've only used bcdboot on single-boot systems.

All I'm saying is: You can try to run bcdboot with C: connected, but it might not work and may break things.

Also, when booted from Windows PE, the disk letters might not match up to the letters that you get in regular Windows. So use diskpart and list disk, list volume to check the letters.

[raw rapids]

I suggest you read the linked article. It should do what you said.

I can never be sure until you try it!

[raw rapids]

definitely try dism+sfc scan

[whole mortar]

System File Checker / SFC

This utility scans the system for corruption in the system files which may be responsible for irregular operating system behaviour. For more information, check this page (written by Microsoft).

Use DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth if SFC fails to properly fix the problem.

[raw rapids]

👍 good stuff

[dreamy kiln]

I would boot from a USB.

Check out https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d

You could create an VHD image with Hyper-V also and copied that to a hard drive and make it bootable. Does require some advanced skills because you would need to adjust the boot manager

[dreamy kiln]

Let me try to understand the full scenario? Why do you want to boot from another disk? From what I understand you messed up your UEFI? There are some many messages gone back and fourth, sorry it's impossible to read it all back. But if your UEFI is broken, I have my doubts if booting from another disk works. I would put all my eggs trying to repair the broken UEFI. Since UEFI is a bootloader, so if you boot from another disk, your bootloader is still broken. That's why I said booting from a usb stick with the installation media and trying to repair the bootloader https://woshub.com/how-to-repair-uefi-bootloader-in-windows-8/ @glossy basalt

[raw rapids]

this means that UWP apps / apps from the Microsoft Store got corrupted

try (temporarily) creating a new user account and see if stuff is broken there as well

poke around in Settings -> Apps and see if there's some useful errors

maybe Event Viewer logs have something - windows (system) logs and application logs?

[slim blade]

i know this is a long discussion... but what exactly you want to do right now?..and what is your current situation?..

[slim blade]

You cant actually boot windows from external drives... You will need "windows to go" option for that!...

But i didnt get the second part of your issue!..

[raw rapids]

the drive is connected internally currently

@glossy basalt your problem is no longer "I can't dual boot Windows", now it's "I have booted Windows, but it's corrupted in some way"

easiest and simplest way to solve windows corruptions is to reinstall windows, or in your case, don't use it

[glossy basalt]

Booted windows 10 but its corrputed

[raw rapids]

when i copied the system i copied it two times one time there was a lot of files that couldn't be copied and the other one copied most of the files
most is not all

and the Windows Store stuff has weird permissions and is really hard to copy and access

So your install might not be salvageable...

you could try an in place upgrade

oh yeah the permissions are probably messed up, and the Windows store stuff is sensitive to permissions

the sfc+dism might help for that

but I'm not really sure what's the best thing to do here

honestly it's pretty messed up so in in place upgrade might work?
https://youtu.be/9BWh0YRmnT8

does the windows version on your USB equal to or greater then the version on disk

you can use the usb for the upgrade then

just plug it in and double-click setup.exe

[vocal jacinth]

Maan, ya problem haven’t fixed yet?

Installing windows?
Then go ahead

Wut?

Bro ya not able to tell what ya doing right now
JUST install windows on this windows system

And ya will be fine

No, it will wipe all and install new windows system
Don't try to fix it

[raw rapids]

not sure what exactly it does, but it fixes problems with system corruptions

basically it reinstalls all system files

[vocal jacinth]

Ya never did in place upgrades?

[raw rapids]

deleting everything is not an option for @glossy basalt

[vocal jacinth]

Why?

Why?

Exactly what own stuff?

[vocal jacinth]

Programs or personal documents?

Personal documents mean music files video photos word document

There is nothing you can do bro, it is corrupted from within windows system

It has to be wiped and reinstall

Just take backup of personal file of yours

Are you dumb?
There is no way you can fix a corrupted system,

You can continue using this messed up system forever
Cause only way to fix it is reinstall

Best of luck to ya, cause ya can't do anything even if you take 10 years

[raw rapids]

Yeah the system might work at first, but you'll run into weird issues quickly I think. Best to try to get it working now, and then copy/backup/export your configurations (for the customisation thing) to a new Windows system.

[vocal jacinth]

This is what happens when people Don't know about windows and starts being a stubborn

[raw rapids]

gonna be afk for the next ~40 minutes

[vocal jacinth]

I know a lot about windows, Your uwp apps are corrupted, THIS will affect other soon as you use like @raw rapids said

Reinstall is your only option