Servers with issues updating, corrupt Components hives

[thereaver]

Hi,

I have 3 Server 2019 VM's that wont install and cumulative updates. SFC and DISM both fail due to the a corrupt database. Ive had a look at the CBS log on each server and they are all getting the same error:
Failed to load the COMPONENTS hive from 'C:\Windows\System32\config\COMPONENTS' into registry key 'HKLM\COMPONENTS'. [HRESULT = 0x800703f1 - ERROR_BADDB]

I was wondering if I could please get some help to resolve this.

I have zipped up the component files and uploaded them here: componentsfiles.zip

 

[SleepyDude]

Hi Welcome to Sysnative,

Wow 3 servers with the same problem!


Replace Components Hive Manually

!!! WARNING !!! The following fix is only relevant for this system and no other, applying this fix on another computer will not work and most likely will cause problems...

1. Download each file to the correspondent server make sure you don't mix them!
   COMPONENTS-fs.zip
   COMPONENTS-lib.zip
   COMPONENTS-mdt.zip
2. Right-click on it and select Extract all.... Make sure the "Show extracted files when complete" is checked and click Extract.
3. Now you have the COMPONENTS file that we will be using to replace your current one.
4. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\config
5. Right-click on the current COMPONENTS file and select rename. Rename it to COMPONENTS.bad.
   Note: If you get an error that the file is in use, reboot your computer and then try again.
6. Take the file from the Components folder on your desktop and paste it into C:\Windows\System32\config

 

[thereaver]

thank you very much. i appreciate the help. ill apply them tomorrow and see how they go.

would you happen to know what the issue was and if its possible for me to fix it in the future?
i feel like it must be related to a windows update or driver as looking at the file dates they all seem to have happened around the same time.