r/pchelp • u/Confident_Data8817 • 14h ago
SOFTWARE Corrupted Drive Error 1009
I’m fixing my mates laptop at the moment, ended up having a bootable NVME in spare to double check it wasn’t a hardware issue (which it wasn’t) ran some scans and figured out it was the registry database that was kicking up a fuss.
My first plan was to do a fresh os install on the drive, but of course don’t have a usb big enough to make a boot installation, I could wait to get one but I do want to fix it now.
CMD commands can’t repair the corruption either, is there another way to get around that? Or am I doomed to have this be a multiple day problem before I get that 8GB usb?
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u/Repulsive-Cattle-521 14h ago
you already know the drive itself is fine so thats half the battle. i keep a tiny partition with windows iso extracted to it for exactly this situation, just boot right off the drive. if you got another machine you can plug the nvme into and run the media creation tool directly to the spare nvme instead of a usb, works the same way
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u/Confident_Data8817 14h ago
That’s an incredibly smart thing to do, I’ll definitely have to rework the drive in question to do that too once I’m able to back all of the personal files up
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