Problem with Windows (10) updates failing - Error 0x800f0922

[ohaya1000]

Thanks Jim.

C:\EFI\Boot and C:\EFI\BootIt are ok. Leave them alone.

Unfortunately, C:\EFI has scrolled off the monitor. You can view earlier pages with...

DIR /p

Brian,

The missing stuff at the top is just the Bootit directory I think. It only scrolled because I wanted to show the contents of the Boot and Bootit dirs ...

[ohaya1000]

Also FYI, the image restore using that NVME dock completed. Took about 2.5 hours for about 195GB and I have now replaced the imaged NVME into the VOSTRO...

FYI, I didn't have to do anything with BIU after the restore.... it just worked. I think it's because the new SSD is installed in the same physical VOSTRO machine that the image came from, so it didn't have to adjust anything.

[Brian K]

I can't see the first page of C:\EFI

Good news about BIU working without a reinstall.

[ohaya1000]

Brian,

Wasn't there a way to install OSDT or something on Windows so I could run those commands without having to reboot into BIU, and also so I could copy the screen in Windows instead taking a picture with a phone?

Jim

[Brian K]

You can't lock the ESP in Windows TBOSDT.

You can use TeraByte Explorer. More later.

[Brian K]

IFW
Utilities
Ready to run scripts
TeraByte Explorer

from here it is using the keyboard, selecting with arrow keys and pressing Enter.

File Explorer
Mount/Unmount a drive path identifier
EFI System
Mount drive in Read-only mode
EFI (press Enter)

That's it. The same as Scripts C:\EFI

[ohaya1000]

Here's the dir of EFI:

efi.jpg (124.77 KiB) Viewed 572 times

BTW, looking at the dates for the dirs, I am pretty sure that they started about the time that I first bought and started using the VOSTRO.

[Brian K]

Thanks Jim. If it's OK with TeraByte Support, I'd delete all Dell.xxx using TeraByte Explorer.

[ohaya1000]

So I've been doing some testing and:

- I went to Dell Support site and check drivers and install 5 driver updates, including a bios update.\
- When I check the EFI, there was an additional dell.xxx directory
- I tried to delete dell.001/logs and I was able to do that using a combination of 'rm' command and an 'rd'.

The 'rd' requires that the dir be empty, so it'd be a pain to do if there was a lot of stuff under a dir.

[Brian K]

TeraByte Explorer can delete all those full directories.