[Win8.1Home] DISM Error 582 - Can't upgrade to Win8.1 PRO

[hubert]

This all started when i needed to upgrade to the pro version of 8.1 (for the group policy editor). The update fails with something went wrong message. Sfc also fails about half way thru. I tried to do an image repair and i get the error below. I have also attached the DISM log.. Im not sure whats going on. Any help is appreciated...



Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


C:\Windows\system32>DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth


Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17031


Image Version: 6.3.9600.17031


[==========================100.0%==========================]


Error: 582


An illegal character was encountered. For a multi-byte character set this includ
es a lead byte without a succeeding trail byte. For the Unicode character set th
is includes the characters 0xFFFF and 0xFFFE.


The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log


C:\Windows\system32>

 

[BrianDrab]

Hi and welcome to Sysnative. Seems you have some registry corruption. Please do the following.

Retrieve Components Hive
1. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Config and locate the COMPONENTS file.
2. Please copy this file to your desktop.
Note: If you receive an error that this file is in-use, simply reboot your computer and try again.
3. Right-click on this file on your desktop and select Send To...Compressed (zipped) folder. This will create a file named COMPONENTS.ZIP on your desktop.
4. The file will likely be too large to upload here so please upload to SendSpace and just provide the link here.

 

[hubert]

Thank you!

Here is the file link.

Download components.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

 

[BrianDrab]

OK, I can see the corruption. Let's see if we can fix it.



Please do the following.

Step#1 - SFCFix Script
Warning: this fix is specific to the user in this thread. No one else should follow these instructions as it may cause more harm than good. If you are after assistance, please start a thread of your own.

1. Download SFCFix.exe (by niemiro) and save this to your Desktop. If you still have this on your desktop from downloading previously, you don't need to re-download.
2. Download the file below, SFCScript.txt, and save this to your Desktop.
3. Save any open documents and close all open windows.
4. On your Desktop, you should see two files: SFCFix.exe and SFCScript.txt.
5. Drag the file SFCScript.txt onto the file SFCFix.exe and release it.
6. SFCFix will now process the script.
7. Upon completion, a file should be created on your Desktop: SFCFix.txt.
8. Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) the contents of this file into your next post for me to analyse please