Fixing Windows Credentials and Mapped Network Drive

Broken PC 🔧🛠️👨‍🔧

I have two main PCs I use for development. One is basically my old main pc that is now turned into a streaming / second monitor / storage device. I have a few old and mirrored drives on it that were broken with the move and/or networking changes.

I remapped the drive this morning and ran into a few issues and fixed them. I don't know PowerShell commands off the top of my head nor some of the internals of Microsoft Networking but with a bit of searching I run the commands needed to fix this issue. I have some other tasks and older VMs I need to work on so fixing these issues is step one.

While working on this, I found out the Hyper-V Network Adapter was missing from Device Manager in Win 11. When I went to reboot to ensure the hypervisor was working, I got stuck in a a boot loop. I  haven't installed recent updates in a while, but with Windows it is possible it snuck something in.

I was in the middle of working on the most recent post when this happened. So I spent an hour or two fixing my Windows 11 machine.

I initially blamed Windows because I thought the recent boot loop / update issues struck. I was wrong. I have updates paused and I haven't had a major feature update since January 2025. Just the security updates. It ended up being some issues with the network stack:

I ended up having to do Windows Recovery and sfc /scannow to fix the Windows system files. I also did the DISM command to make sure the other system files were good.