Hopefully someone will have some ideas on repairing my corrupted driver hive.
This is Windows 10 Pro and the issue happened just as the hurricane hit and my PC blipped off and immediately on. My UPS did not stop the blip, but the UPS is actually working as I tested repeatedly later. So I'm not sure how the interruption could have happened. Many of my drivers disappeared and this was my first indication that something was wrong. I couldn't trigger a driver install for these, it looks like it finds a driver and installs it but it is never really available. And some installs or reinstalls fail if there are drivers involved. Windows Update has been working well but it cannot complete an update now, so it just tries and then rolls back after a reboot. USB sticks are not recognized, phones and tablets either, nor are other USB devices or my printer. Windows Update suggests about a dozen driver updates now, these were not there before, and I suspect these are some of the missing drivers Windows is trying to repair but can't.
I did all of the usual DISM steps and the sfc /scannow checks. But nothing has helped the driver hive. I did use a tool from this site to check the components hive and that had no errors. Registry Explorer reports that the primary and secondary sequence numbers do not match. It does offer to replay transaction logs but there are none listed when it opens the Explorer window. Sequence Number Checker does nothing when I drag a file over it. A flash on screen and that's all. Running it from a command prompt doers nothing either.
I have a zip archive of the Components and the Drivers hive and the component hive scanner report:
Dropbox
I hope someone will have some advice for me on how to repair the driver hive and get Windows healthy again. I'm trying to avoid a bare metal reinstall (a repair install in-place did not work either and it errored out).
Thanks in addvance for any ideas and help.
Darkk
