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System unusable after "successful" 1511 (1115, 1511, whatever) upgrade
Be kind, I'm more than a little stressed at the moment...
I did a stupid thing. When I upgraded all 5 computers here to Windows 10 several months ago, it went SO WELL I figured doing the November upgrade yesterday would be a snap. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Ran the Microsoft thing, got the ISO, put it on the flash drive, did the upgrade. It churned, and did it's thing and EVENTUALLY I got a blue screen where it said something about "apps". Waited. It'd periodically change and EVENTUALLY I got the screen about being back in a moment or just a moment or some such. Where it sat... After an hour or so I figured it was doing SOMETHING very slowly and decided I'd leave it for the night. Went to bed.
This morning, SAME screen still there. Figured it was having a problem and pressed a key on the keyboard. Blue screen disappeared and I was in the system. Except the system is now UNUSABLE.
I have a constant mouse pointer with blue circle indicating busy. I can RUN the Task Manager and it shows between 18 and 30% busy (depending on which time I reboot) but it never updates, and hitting "cpu" doesn't update and show me WHO'S using the cpu. Scrolling down, EVERYBODY is 0. wsappx is running, but I can't kill either the one service that it shows OR the task. I have no idea if that's the culprit.
I can't even shut the thing down clean... I can open the menu, I can hit power, but when I tell it to shut down it just sits there.
I've lost BOTH RAID 0 arrays - in the boot it says they've both failed so those 4 disks are unplugged. All that's in is the SSD it boots from and at LEAST half the time it won't boot. I get the "Recovery" screen and troubleshooting finds NOTHING...
I've tried plugging the flash drive back in, but it doesn't even get seen at this point, so I can't even retry the upgrade...
WTF did this thing do, and HOW DO I FIX IT? (and please make it simple and not of the "blow it all away and start over" variety)...