Windows 10: Windows Update Ate My Computer. Can't boot, restore, safemode, reset, or unupdate. Can...

Discus and support Windows Update Ate My Computer. Can't boot, restore, safemode, reset, or unupdate. Can... in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Yesterday, my 32-bit, Windows Home Premium decided to update. I saw it when it had the whirling dots and a message that it was 42% done. I let it run... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by 3-Wheel DriveEly, Oct 19, 2020.

  1. Windows Update Ate My Computer. Can't boot, restore, safemode, reset, or unupdate. Can...


    Yesterday, my 32-bit, Windows Home Premium decided to update. I saw it when it had the whirling dots and a message that it was 42% done. I let it run all day. It never got past 42. I powered it off and restarted it. Now it only boots to Windows PE, and I can only run the command prompt. Here's what I tried and what happens:


    Reset: There was a problem resetting your PC...


    Startup Repair: Startup Repair couldn't repair your PC


    Startup Settings: 4 Safe Mode, Preparing Automatic Repair, Your PC did not start correctly. Also tried turning off driver enforcement and early-launch anti-malware. Same results.


    Uninstall Updates: Quality & Features... We ran into a problem...


    System Restore: There are 2 restore points. Neither can be selected because Status is You must enable system protection on this drive.


    Command Prompt: It's the only thing that works and I tried some things with it to no success...


    chkdsk /f/r/x: Completes without finding any errors, but says "failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50" I checked with diskpart, drive is not read only.


    sfc /scannow: Verification 100% complete. Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.


    I tried starting system restore from the command prompt after restarting VSS shadow services like...

    net stop vss

    net start vss

    Then renaming "software" and "system" files in c:\windows\system32\config and starting restore like...

    rstrui /offline:c:\windows=active


    The above actually grinded on the disk "Restoring files..." for a good long time and finally said it couldn't do it. I was really hopeful.


    I can:

    navigate drive C

    copy from the console to a text file

    delete & type files

    Drive C: looks good, everything seems to be there.


    I'm a a loss. Does anyone know any logs I could look in to see what's failing? Any other suggestions?

    :)
     
    3-Wheel DriveEly, Oct 19, 2020
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  2. Winuser Win User

    Networking in Safemode

    I tried uninstalling and re-installing the adapter and it didn't work. I tried another suggestion I found doing a search. They suggested to click on the Network Icon before booting in to Safemode and connecting to the adapter. The only thing listed was Airplane mode. I guess Windows 10 will not initialize a wireless adapter in Safemode.
     
    Winuser, Oct 19, 2020
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  3. Winuser Win User
    Networking in Safemode

    Thanks everyone for trying to help. I have tried all the suggestions posted. When I try to access the wireless adapter before booting in to Safemode the only thing listed is Airplane mode. I'm guessing either Asus or MS doesn't want me to use wireless networking in Safemode.
     
    Winuser, Oct 19, 2020
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  4. xnox202 Win User

    Windows Update Ate My Computer. Can't boot, restore, safemode, reset, or unupdate. Can...

    Windows XP Error: Could not Boot after update

    Thing is, I could not boot into safemode. Is there a way to system restore by using recovery console?
     
    xnox202, Oct 19, 2020
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