

The bootable media is also the only method that doesn't require the password if you're stuck on that.īoot media by powering up the PC while pressing the BIOS Boot Menu Key. If you are able to access System Restore or Go Back and it fails, skip to step 3.Ģ) If necessary borrow another PC and follow the steps in the middle of this download page to create bootable installation media to access the repair options if not accessible by any other method. Įasiest is to restart or force shutdown the PC 3 times to force it into Repair Mode. At least one step will always work, leading up to if necessary doing an automated Reset or a gold standard Clean Install:ġ) Try whichever method works in this tutorial link to get into Advanced Startup Options to run System Restore or Uninstall Updates button, or if this is a version update Go Back to Old Version. If any steps won't work then report back and move on to the next. Here are steps to recover from failed Updates or Version Update install which cause Windows to fail to start or function. I'm assuming here that you cannot start Windows since the last thing you wrote is that there is no signal to monitor. The problem is almost always due to version and Windows Updates choking on poor quality installs, which Windows 10 unfortunately has no tolerance for. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, and Volunteer Moderator, here to help you. Times are tough enough without Microsoft messing with my work flow. I have lost 11 hours of work because of this. (light flashing) and no signal to monitor. I left it overnight to complete the install and when I came back in the office at 11:30 Saturday morning the hard drive was still slammed This was at around 12:30 Friday afternoon.

Without my permission, to save my work and let it do its thing. The next time something popped up it was a message saying the computer was going to restart An hour later I was given the wait option again, which I clicked, hoping to keep clicking this option until my workday was done.

It didn't happen, and late morning I got the update restart pop-up window again, but this time I had the option Shut-down and eventually everything calmed down and was back to normal.ĭay before yesterday I got the same message about needing to do a restart to update, and once again I scheduled it for the early morning hours. Five hours later the hard drive was still hammering away but there was no longer a signal to the monitor. The restartĭid not take place until I was working the following morning, when I was basically forced to stop everything and give Microsoft its way. I scheduled a restart for the early morning hours when I wouldn't be working. Two or three weeks ago I got a notification that Windows 10 needed to restart to load updates, and I was asked if I wanted to "restart now" or "schedule a restart".
