FINALLY go Windows Update to run successfully. Here's what I ended up doing:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10 Click "Download now" under the section titled "Creae Windows 10 installation media".
Scan the downloaded file with your antivirus program (I use Malwarebytes). If clean, click on it to run it.
The first thing that appears is a windows with the heading "Applicable notices and license terms". Click Accept.
Click the radio button titled "Create installation media".
This will download the ISO file (named windows.iso).
To make things easy, create a folder on your Desktop named WindowsISO.
Using 7Zip, extract all the folders/files to the folder you just created (in this example, the folder named "WindowsISO").
Use the process detailed at the link below to convert the install.esd file to install.wim:
How to Extract Install.ESD to Install.WIM (Windows 10/8) - WinTips.org When I used the following command (from the URL above), I was initially getting an error 87 (after having replaced the IndexNumber with the IndexNumber of my OS. This will make sense when you read the info from the link above). After getting that error message a couple of times, I tried using the command from that link WITHOUT first replacing the IndexNumber variable. I pasted that into the cmd/DOS window, the used my arrow key to go back, erse the word "IndexNumber" and entered my indexnumber. THEN it worked:
dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:IndexNumber /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity
I then ran install.wim from the DOS window, went to the path:
C:\install.wim\Windows\System32\Recovery\
I then copied the winre.wim file from there and pasted it into the same directory on my PC. After doing that, I was able to successfully run Windows Update again (but this was after previously extending the WinRE partition using a program I already had named MiniTool Partition Wizard. Very good program for cloning and extending partitions by the way.
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Go to:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10 Click "Download now" under the section titled "Creae Windows 10 installation media".
Scan the downloaded file with your antivirus program (I use Malwarebytes). If clean, click on it to run it.
The first thing that appears is a windows with the heading "Applicable notices and license terms". Click Accept.
Click the radio button titled "Create installation media".
This will download the ISO file (named windows.iso).
To make things easy, create a folder on your Desktop named WindowsISO.
Using 7Zip, extract all the folders/files to the folder you just created (in this example, the folder named "WindowsISO").
Use the process detailed at the link below to convert the install.esd file to install.wim:
How to Extract Install.ESD to Install.WIM (Windows 10/8) - WinTips.org When I used the following command (from the URL above), I was initially getting an error 87 (after having replaced the IndexNumber with the IndexNumber of my OS. This will make sense when you read the info from the link above). After getting that error message a couple of times, I tried using the command from that link WITHOUT first replacing the IndexNumber variable. I pasted that into the cmd/DOS window, the used my arrow key to go back, erse the word "IndexNumber" and entered my indexnumber. THEN it worked:
dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:IndexNumber /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity
I then ran install.wim from the DOS window, went to the path:
C:\install.wim\Windows\System32\Recovery\
I then copied the winre.wim file from there and pasted it into the same directory on my PC. After doing that, I was able to successfully run Windows Update again (but this was after previously extending the WinRE partition using a program I already had named MiniTool Partition Wizard. Very good program for cloning and extending partitions by the way.
You can see if Windows RE is enabled by running the following command:
reagentc /info
If it shows Disabled, run this command:
reagentc /enable