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JihedBen Hammadi
Hi,
My system:
10 Pro 64bit, OS Build 18362.1082
On October 14th, when I shut down my laptop, there was a forced update and shutdown (or restart). So I shut it down and slept. The next day, I started up my laptop, and, instead of logging in, it started some automatic repair. Then it took me to the automatic repair options (troubleshooting, advanced, all those options you know).
I tried every option available (except for Windows reset and reinstall because I don't wanna lose my apps).
The system restore was my first attempt, I found a restoration point from September 29th, and another from October 14th just before the update, I started with the latest, nothing, so I tried with the September 29th restoration point, which took longer, and that made me think that it will work. But, not only after 2 hours of restoration it did show a failure message indicating that it couldn't locate the restoration point, but later that restoration point was gone. I can only see the October 14th point.
I tried all the other options there. Nothing.
I also used the command prompt to try chkdsk, sfc, registry backup, dism cleanup (restore health, scan health, etc....), but nothing.
I found a folder in C:/Windows/Servicing/LCU that was created on October 15th, the moment I tried to start up my laptop the first time after the update.
I copied the name and tried looking for it in the installed updates using dism, but it isn't there. I tried removing it with RemovePackage but it isn't found, which means that this update failed to install.
I used RevertPendingActions, but nothing.
I deleted the folder from LCU, but it's still there.
I borrowed a USB that has Windows 10 on it and tried all the above using it as a source in all those commands, but nothing.
I tried reinstalling windows 10 as un upgrade, so I won't lose any of my apps and files, but I couldn't, I got a message telling me that I have to be on Windows then install from there, which is Impossible because I can't access in the first place.
As I said, I'm avoiding Reset because I don't want to lose my apps for something that's not my fault. All of this is because of a faulty Windows Update. How can you expect me to lose my installed apps just because Microsoft can't properly test their own updates before releasing them.
I say that because I'm not the only one that has this issue.
Look at the threads opened recently in this community.
I leave some pictures I took for the package name that is the cause of the problem.
In the first one, using the log file srttrail.txt, the error indicating that a boot binary is corrupted, the action of repair was to uninstall it from the LCU but it failed, see the error code 0x905.
In the second image, the name of the update package in the LCU folder and you can see the date, 15/10/2020, moment of my first start up after the update. Also the parent folder (LCU) has last modification date 14/10/2020,moment of update automatic download.
So, as I understood, Windows failed to apply October's update to OS Build 18362.1139. And couldn't boot.
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My system:
10 Pro 64bit, OS Build 18362.1082
On October 14th, when I shut down my laptop, there was a forced update and shutdown (or restart). So I shut it down and slept. The next day, I started up my laptop, and, instead of logging in, it started some automatic repair. Then it took me to the automatic repair options (troubleshooting, advanced, all those options you know).
I tried every option available (except for Windows reset and reinstall because I don't wanna lose my apps).
The system restore was my first attempt, I found a restoration point from September 29th, and another from October 14th just before the update, I started with the latest, nothing, so I tried with the September 29th restoration point, which took longer, and that made me think that it will work. But, not only after 2 hours of restoration it did show a failure message indicating that it couldn't locate the restoration point, but later that restoration point was gone. I can only see the October 14th point.
I tried all the other options there. Nothing.
I also used the command prompt to try chkdsk, sfc, registry backup, dism cleanup (restore health, scan health, etc....), but nothing.
I found a folder in C:/Windows/Servicing/LCU that was created on October 15th, the moment I tried to start up my laptop the first time after the update.
I copied the name and tried looking for it in the installed updates using dism, but it isn't there. I tried removing it with RemovePackage but it isn't found, which means that this update failed to install.
I used RevertPendingActions, but nothing.
I deleted the folder from LCU, but it's still there.
I borrowed a USB that has Windows 10 on it and tried all the above using it as a source in all those commands, but nothing.
I tried reinstalling windows 10 as un upgrade, so I won't lose any of my apps and files, but I couldn't, I got a message telling me that I have to be on Windows then install from there, which is Impossible because I can't access in the first place.
As I said, I'm avoiding Reset because I don't want to lose my apps for something that's not my fault. All of this is because of a faulty Windows Update. How can you expect me to lose my installed apps just because Microsoft can't properly test their own updates before releasing them.
I say that because I'm not the only one that has this issue.
Look at the threads opened recently in this community.
I leave some pictures I took for the package name that is the cause of the problem.
In the first one, using the log file srttrail.txt, the error indicating that a boot binary is corrupted, the action of repair was to uninstall it from the LCU but it failed, see the error code 0x905.
In the second image, the name of the update package in the LCU folder and you can see the date, 15/10/2020, moment of my first start up after the update. Also the parent folder (LCU) has last modification date 14/10/2020,moment of update automatic download.
So, as I understood, Windows failed to apply October's update to OS Build 18362.1139. And couldn't boot.
Continue reading...