dl2uv wrote:
Am 08.06.2018 um 21:44 schrieb Ben Myers:
On 6/8/2018 11:51 AM, dl2uv wrote:
My Latitude E4300 laptop worked flawless until the KB4100403 was due
for installation. The installation was performed and a reboot was
forced. When booting, the laptop shows a litte blue circle, which can
be moved with the mouse. This condition lasts forever. The windows-10
functional update 1803 is installed since May 2nd.
Any hints?
Klaus
Start the computer, wait ten or fifteen seconds, then press and hold
the power button until the computer shuts down. Do this twice and the
third time the computer should boot into the recovery environment.
Ben
Hi Ben
I made this several times. The only useable solution in recovery mode is
to restore the laptop using a system image. After that, the circle
starts again.
Klaus
It's possible to back out a failed update, in offline mode.
The user "Cameo" did this, when a certain update bricked his
computer.
Updates are in two states, installed, or "install-not-finished".
The spinning balls at shutdown allow PendMove activities
before the reboot. There are also spinning balls during the
boot process, to finish installation of an update. An update
does not progress to the "installed" state, unless both spinning
ball sequences finish.
If the computer is bricked before it finished booting, you can
look into the offline "install-not-finished" recipe. What Cameo
found by Googling, is at the bottom of this post.
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...nt-email.me%3E
"I was able to use the original Win7 install DVD in Repair Mode
that gave my DOS command window where I entered:
DISM /image:c:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
Because the corrupt package was not installed completely I was able
to use this shorter DISM command, instead of the longer
DISM /image:c:\ /remove-package /packagename: etc. command.
After the restart my Win7 booted up normally and the update history
shows that KB4056894 installation failed.
"
So that's a way you might be able to get out of it.
If you have a Macrium ReflectFree CD, you can make
a backup of C: , before trying any experiments...
Paul