Best way to go about a Corrupt windows

[Abstract1]

Hey,

So basically what the title says, my windows if now corrupt after the latest windows Cumulative update (KB5034848).

 

Windows was acting real slow, and everything taking ages to load up. 

 

sone a scan on CMD with sfc/Scannow . And got back that 'windows is corrupt but was unable to fix.'

 

I have had this before early last year. i Fixed it but after lots of playing around for a whole day. And cant exactly remember the way i went about it in the end.

 

Just after some advice on what's the best way to go about fixing it and not loose any personal data on the PC 

Thanks in advance 

[porina]

Try running the below before sfc /scannow and see if that helps. Link for more details.

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

 

[Hellowpplz]

17 minutes ago, Abstract1 said:

Hey,

So basically what the title says, my windows if now corrupt after the latest windows Cumulative update (KB5034848).

 

Windows was acting real slow, and everything taking ages to load up. 

 

sone a scan on CMD with sfc/Scannow . And got back that 'windows is corrupt but was unable to fix.'

 

I have had this before early last year. i Fixed it but after lots of playing around for a whole day. And cant exactly remember the way i went about it in the end.

 

Just after some advice on what's the best way to go about fixing it and not loose any personal data on the PC 

Thanks in advance 

Honestly I would just do a data backup to a separate drive, reinstall windows on your main drive, then move all your stuff back. Shouldn't take that long unless you got tb's of files on your computer.

[goatedpenguin]

If this happend after a update you can just roll back it through the safe mode menu. Do you have a restore point?

[Abstract1]

36 minutes ago, porina said:

Try running the below before sfc /scannow and see if that helps. Link for more details.

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

 

 

27 minutes ago, Hellowpplz said:

Honestly I would just do a data backup to a separate drive, reinstall windows on your main drive, then move all your stuff back. Shouldn't take that long unless you got tb's of files on your computer.

 

Thanks for the advice will give these a go.

 

Thanks again 

[Abstract1]

1 hour ago, goatedpenguin said:

If this happend after a update you can just roll back it through the safe mode menu. Do you have a restore point?

This would make my life easier, Unfortunately no restore point until after the update  

[goatedpenguin]

Well ig thats a lesson learnt the hard way, you can schedule one to be made at whatever interval you want so that this does not happen next time.

[Abstract1]

6 hours ago, goatedpenguin said:

Well ig thats a lesson learnt the hard way, you can schedule one to be made at whatever interval you want so that this does not happen next time.

Yeah looks like it lol.  I ended up just reinstalling windows and all solved now .

 

just had to reinstall all my software again though haha... But that's how it be sometimes