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Windows Update failed, now laptop is locked up...
Hello Folks,
On Tuesday I opened my laptop and was greeted by "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC. The message stated my options, "advanced options" or "shutdown" and where to find the log file C:\Windows\system32\logfiles\srt\srttrails.txt.
tried the advanced options. Continue to Win10 - system rebooted, Troubleshoot -reset nothing, Restore, reset startup repair, sys recovery. Either they caused rebooting which launched attempting repair or just shutdown. Restarting generated another instance of attempting repair. which always ended up at advanced options. Tried Command Prompt which launched a DOS (those were the good old days) window with admin privileges. Command line automatically showed "x:\windows\system32>" Now where the devil did an "X" drive come from??? I tried numerous times to change to C:\ with no luck. Can't even backspace to remove the entry. I also tried DISM with an error 87, PXE with E18 and one other thing that I can't remember. Oh, can't boot into safe mode either. Wasn't thrilled about being require to upgraded to Win 10. Matter of fact I was waiting to the deadline to upgrade but thanks to the little updates with hidden agendas I woke up one morning , woke up one morning and there it was. So, I've been doing a lot of reading on this subject and it looks like this situation has been around for awhile (just like the NVidia/Vista memory allocation situation no body could fix). I sure hope I don't have to trash this laptop cause it's only a year and a half old and has a lot of info on it.
Thank You,
JDee
Sys Info attached