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I have found many clues that my system might be corrupted. A folder that was supposed to be there in the registry was missing, glitches happening left and right, crashes are more often. You see, all the online articles say to run cmd.exe as administrator and preform sfc /scannowhowever, when I try to run it as administrator this error pops up:
Windows cannot access C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
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A folder from the registry dealing with the write permissions of the disk was missing. I can't access C: in file explorer with the error: Access is denied. My local account is supposed to have administrator permissions. Going into recovery menu and using the cmd prompt to run the command: chkdsk takes a while, then finishes and returned a result saying my pc had problems. (X: drive) sfc /scannow gave me an error saying: Windows resource protection could not perform the requested operation.
What I've tried already:
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Assuming the issue is permission related, chkdsk is not going to fix that, it only fixes/recovers physical or logical disk issues. You can try running this command to reset NTFS permissions ICACLS * /T /Q /C /RESET or refer to this guide: https://winaero.com/reset-ntfs-permissions-wind...
If you are still having issues, then I recommend you reinstall Windows by running the setup or booting from the media creation tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...
Okay, the DISM seemed to have detected nothing. I also added a memory diagnostic to diagnose the crashes, and no problems were found. It seems that the chkdsk has found problems though, and is fixing them right now.
OK. Let me know how it goes after DISM completes.
I tried startup repair, however, it said repair couldn't fix your pc. I managed to boot into safe mode and got into admin cmd, did sfc /scannow and I have scheduled a chkdsk C: /f /r /x to scan and fix when the system restarts. I am doing a dism restore health scan right now. Hopefully, these will fix the problem, and yes I do sort of remember modifying the default accounts in windows in the registry, it was to enable auto-login I believe. I then disabled it though. It was a pretty long time ago, so I don't think it's anything significant. One more piece of information, this issue arrised from re-installing windows on the laptop. If you need even more information, I had to force-reboot the laptop after it was stuck at 99% resetting this pc. (I left it on over-night as lots of articles said it should fix itself overnight) and well, it didn't.
Hi and thanks for reaching out. My name is William. I'm a Microsoft Windows Certified Professional and Systems Administrator. I'll be happy to help you out today.
Did you modify the default permissions for the system drive or play with the default accounts in Windows? I usually see this when someone has done something along these lines.
I would recommend you boot into the Window Recovery Environment and perform a Repair of the operating system. You can do this any number of way, the most common being Start > Settings > Updates & Security > Recovery > Restart now or from the logon screen select the option to restart while holding down the shift key. I recommend backup any personal data you can get access to before doing this.
