Solved Error: 0x800f081f The source files could not be found

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gil

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Hi,

Getting "sfc /scannow" and "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" issues.

It seems that I'm not able to fix some corruption.
The main reason I stared with SFC command was that my icons on my task bar, disappeared.

SFC found issues but was unable to resolve them.

I ran the following commands:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

I also used "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /source:WIM:X:\Install.wim:1 /LimitAccess"
to point to my X drive which is my external drive that has Install.wim file.

The error I'm getting is:
Code:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /source:WIM:X:\Install.wim:1 /LimitAccess
Deployment Image Servicing and Management toolVersion: 10.0.14393.0Image Version: 10.0.14393.0
[===========================91.5%=====================     ]
Error: 0x800f081f
The source files could not be found.Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature.
For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077.The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

This is the dism.log file output:
dism.log - Pastebin.com

Can anyone help please?
 

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Hi gil and welcome to PCHF :)

Please download MiniToolBox and save it to your desktop. Run the program by right clicking on it and selecting Run as administrator. When the program opens select the following boxes:

Flush DNS
Report IE Proxy Settings
Reset IE Proxy Settings
Report FF Proxy Settings
Reset FF Proxy Settings
List content of Hosts
List IP Configuration
List Winsock Entries
List last 10 Event Viewer Errors
List Installed Programs
List Devices (Only Problems)
List Users, Partitions and Memory size


Please post the log in your next reply :)
 
I was able to solve it eventually. Here are the steps:



1. Create a Windows Installation media, using the Windows Media Creation Tool.

2. I didn't choose to create ISO file. I selected the 1st option in the list.

3. After this was done, I referred to the "Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth/Source:X:\sources\install.esd:1" command and adding the option of

4. Note that I didn't use /LimtAccess - not using this options allows windows to use the windows update service to find the required files to fix the issue.

5. Another important note is that in my case I had to use 'install.esd' file because that is the file that is generated when creating the windows installation disk.

After running the above command, I was able to see it reached 100% with success message at the end.

Followed by "sfc /scannow" everything is fixed.
 
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