Windows 10: A Win10 update that caused a bootloop/rebootloop, now I can't even boot from DVD.

This is gonna be a bit lengthy but I hope someone can help, I'm desperate now.
I'll talk about my problem in chronological order as detailed as I can.

At first, and apparently, a failed update had caused Windows10 to enter an infinite bootloop ( gets to the windows loading screen, stays like that for about 15 min > black screen > reboot)

Tried reverting to the previous version or do a startup repair from the troublshooting menu ( by interrupting a boot 3 times in a row ) but it always gave an error and never did anything.

I prepared a Win10 installation DVD to try and repair my system via command prompt, as I read it may be sth with the boot files.

It boots and says that I appear to have booted while an update was ongoing and asks to remove the DVD and restart if I want to continue it ( which is the problem in the first place ) so I go on as a clean installation and click repair my PC and so on until I got to the command prompt.


went and tried Bootrec /fixmbr and it was successful,

however Bootrec /fixboot gave me an "Access Denied" error.


I read that I can fix this acces denied error by creating a new efi boot directory,
which I did but didn't work.


My last try, and the most stupid one I guess, was that I decided to try and do the fixmbr and fixboot commands from my HDD win10 ( which gave the same results as well ).


because after that my bios no longer asks me to press anykey to boot from CD/DVD despite the boot priority being given to my DVD Driver ( the dash blinks a few times and moves a bit then, it boots directly to my HDD which doesn't boot in the first place ).


My UEFI BIOS settings seem normal and I can access it normally but the time my pc needs to reach the windows loading screen somehow seems shorter than before.


And I forgot to mention that the Bootrec /rebuildbcd and /scanos said that I have 0 windows installations on my HDD.


Is it possible that this is happening because the DVD build is different than my HDD build ?


I'll try and make a bootable USB when I can and

try to see if the same happens.



It's also wirth mentioning that whenever I try to uninstall the latest updates, I get to choose from 2 operating systems, one is Win10 ( and when I choose it I get a message that it's another version and i can't do it ) and the other system doesn't have a name and is probably residual files from and older system ( but it doesn't give the same error ).



I understand that I may have done a lot of mistakes with this, but idk how to revert them back and a fresh installation is a last resort for me (let alone I can't even boot from DVD now)


Thanks in advance.

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