Windows 10: Windows 10 1909 Dead

Hi there,

I have a month old Dell system running the latest Windows 10 1909, fully up to date. I noticed yesterday it said it had an update that required a reboot.
I updated and shut down and when I attempted to boot it up later in the day, got the following screens:


It failed to boot,
I tried a Start-up Repair and got the following screen:
I ran a CHKDSK/F/R which took over 7 hours but reported no issues.
I then attempted to remove the latest update feature and got the following error:



The computer has had no significant changes, just regular Windows updates.
You will note that from the screenshot showing the start-up repair, there is a log.
A copy of the log isavailable here



I find it strange that the Windows directory is D:\Windows as it should be C:\
I have two raided SSD drives for Windows and then one 6TB data drive for D. The letters seem to have been switched which is odd.

Also, in the log, I found this interesting:

Root cause found:

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A recently serviced boot binary is corrupt.


Does anyone have any suggestions on why this has happened and what I can do to resolve it as all of the usual things are not working? Pretty disappointed that such a new system and new install of 10 has already failed.

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Steps to confirm issue:

• Secondary drive not visible in Windows Explorer
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Steps to replicate issue:

• Installing 1909 update

Steps to resolve issue:

• Uninstall 1909 update

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I'm one of the many people suffering from issues with user profiles after applying Update 1909 to Windows 10. I've read all the threads I can find on the topic here and have followed the suggestions, all to no avail. Any other thoughts are appreciated.

After applying Update 1909, the ProfileImagePath was changed to c:\users\User.000
One file that was always in use and couldn't be removed was left in c:\users\User (can't recall or find the exact file now), so I could never rename or remove the c:\user\User directory.

I followed the multiple suggestions from Brink and others:

• Rebooted at least 6 times
• Enabled hidden Administrator
• Booted into Safe Mode
• Changed ProfileImagePath
• Tried to rename c:\users\User but couldn't because a file was still in use
• Copied all data from c:\users\User.000 into c:\users\User
• Rebooted and had temporary profile
• Followed steps in Brink tutorial to change ImageProfilePath; rebooted with no change
• Restored using Restore Point from before Update 1909 - returned to single profile state (User.000)
• Removed each update that was installed individually and rebooted after each update removal - profile state never changed
• After all updates were removed, repeated the steps above with hidden Administrator, changing profile, etc. - same issue with file in use in c:\users\User
• Followed all steps above with hidden Administrator but without copying files from User.000 to User - same results

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!