Problem solved!
the culprit was the driver for the AMD graphics card. Apparently it is a known issue for this specific computer model (Dell precision M2800) and it has a simple fix...
I removed the WLAN card from my computer and tried again, but it freezes at exactly the same point, 75% right after third reboot
this time however I get this from SetupDiag :
Error: SetupDiag reports abrupt down-level failure.
Last Operation: Finalize
Error: 0xC1900201 - 0x40008
LogEntry...
The windows update process freezes every time at 75% after the second boot, forcing me to do a hard power shutdown.
after that it rolls back to the original version and shows the error 0xC1900101-0x40021 (sometimes 0xC1900101-0x30018)
I tried doing a clean boot as per Microsoft directions but...
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