Recent content by Seymour Skinner

No I'm afraid it doesn't boot into any of the safe modes

Nah it doesn't respond to that key combination

Sorry that statement that you quoted wasn't very clear, what I meant was that I was able to get /restorehealth and scannow to complete successfully on the win11 disk. They fixed about 50 corrupted files, but it didn't have an effect on the system's ability to boot. I've run chkdsk in the past...

Ok so I followed the steps as closely as I could but native.exe did not load. What I did was: Downloaded, unzipped and copied native.exe into the \system32 folder of the broken win11. From within my working win11, I loaded the SYSTEM hive of the broken win11 into regedit, but I couldn't get...

Ah ok yeah that makes sense about the hives. I direct messaged you the winlogon key. Oh ok interesting, happy to give it a try!

Yeah, all have been checked for sequence number issues and repaired, though booting with them causes the numbers to not match again. All except the SOFTWARE hive actually this time. Can doing a forced shutdown with the power button do this to a hive? I'm currently also looking at the processes...

I'll let you know if I'm able to fix it, but I think I'm all out of options at the moment. It didn't respond to any of the /restorehealth or scannow actions, so I think we're in miracle territory now

Ah ok that makes sense, I guess the way I ended up getting the files for my win11 OS was similar. Cheers I'll check that article out. The win10 install works!!!!!! I ran /restorehealth with the files you provided and then scannow, they both completed without an issue. This is the most progress...

Thanks so much! Though out of curiosity and so that I can solve these problems in the future, how were you able to get those files? To me, the files seemed pretty critical and would have been part of the windows image file that I tried to use as a source. Were the files not in this wim file or...

I've made a small amount of progress with the win10 disk, but I just need a bit of help running the /restorehealth command. I've so far been focusing on the win11 disk, but I recently tried to repair the image of the win10 disk. I ran /restorehealth on it without specifying a source and it...

Yeah it's a doozy of a problem haha, I'll have a think and keep an eye on the other thread too. Are there any other areas worth exploring? I had another look inside the kernel but couldn't find any processes or threads behaving obviously unusually. Yeah, I'm 99% sure that the RAM is compatible...

Thanks for linking that thread, I went through and analysed all the hives in the config folder as well as the ntuser.dat hive using the Registry Explorer and SequenceNumberChecker tools. I didn't find any issues with the Components, ELAM, SAM and NTUSER.DAT hives, but the DEFAULT, DRIVER...

I followed your instructions but unfortunately the problem still persists, my computer still can't boot to the login screen. Could another registry hive be the problem? Out of curiosity, how did you detect that my SOFTWARE hive was corrupted and then fix it?

Yep I'm happy to send that to you but I appear to be unable to send anyone a private message. I saw a post where someone explained that to do this you need to hover the mouse over your profile and select private message, but I don't have that option. Can you send me a message that I can reply...

Just to clarify, is the repair method that you are referring to the method that installs a fresh copy of windows onto the drive and moves the original installation into the windows.old folder? I do have access to the file system of the broken win11 and have the CBS log. It shows that an update...