Hey there
I have Windows 10 Pro on Ivy Bridge 3770K computer with Asus Z77-V Pro motherboard. It just failed the 1607 update- Ihttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3176495
It is August 9th update, it looks like it was downloaded on my computer and I was seeing options, "Update and Restart", "Update and Shut down" but every time I would use one of those options, computer would just restart. So I went under settings/ Windows update and restarted from there. It ran update, it was behaving normally, but when it restarted, I had black screen with nothing but mouse pointer. I waited may be 5 minutes and manually restarted. When it started to boot, it said, "Restoring previous version of Windows". It went on with it and recovered. I am typing this post on this computer. So anxious me went back to Windows Update and used "Check for updates" and it downloading the same updates. My intention was to run update again, because sooner or later it will download it again and when I restart it will install. But I actually restarted many times while it was sitting there downloaded the first time and it never attempted to install.
My question is- is there anything I can do to help it install? There is a good chance that it will fail this update 2nd time and may not be able to restore previous version of Windows. This is very important audio workstation. The value of it is not as much in hardware as in software. I have 600 titles of software synth and effects installed on this computer and reinstalling Windows from scratch would be a disaster. I have 6 drives on this system and files distributed between 6 drives, which would make rebuilding very very time consuming and stressful process.
The back up would be nice, but I had 8 GB hard drive that for some reason had difficulties with running back up and I did not asure that it working, so I do not have a back up. I do not expect other drives to be affected by the failure, so I will be able to access the other 5 drives if I have to reinstall Windows, but reinstalling Windows will make all programs and libraries installed on those drives unusable as the main software elements are on C drive. So this is huge problem. I should of probably set it to defer updates instead of actually make it downloading it. But with Windows now days- it will attempt to download it and install sooner or later and if it fails, restores and continues doing it over and over, it would not be useful any way. So what can I do now? Thank you.
I have Windows 10 Pro on Ivy Bridge 3770K computer with Asus Z77-V Pro motherboard. It just failed the 1607 update- Ihttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3176495
It is August 9th update, it looks like it was downloaded on my computer and I was seeing options, "Update and Restart", "Update and Shut down" but every time I would use one of those options, computer would just restart. So I went under settings/ Windows update and restarted from there. It ran update, it was behaving normally, but when it restarted, I had black screen with nothing but mouse pointer. I waited may be 5 minutes and manually restarted. When it started to boot, it said, "Restoring previous version of Windows". It went on with it and recovered. I am typing this post on this computer. So anxious me went back to Windows Update and used "Check for updates" and it downloading the same updates. My intention was to run update again, because sooner or later it will download it again and when I restart it will install. But I actually restarted many times while it was sitting there downloaded the first time and it never attempted to install.
My question is- is there anything I can do to help it install? There is a good chance that it will fail this update 2nd time and may not be able to restore previous version of Windows. This is very important audio workstation. The value of it is not as much in hardware as in software. I have 600 titles of software synth and effects installed on this computer and reinstalling Windows from scratch would be a disaster. I have 6 drives on this system and files distributed between 6 drives, which would make rebuilding very very time consuming and stressful process.
The back up would be nice, but I had 8 GB hard drive that for some reason had difficulties with running back up and I did not asure that it working, so I do not have a back up. I do not expect other drives to be affected by the failure, so I will be able to access the other 5 drives if I have to reinstall Windows, but reinstalling Windows will make all programs and libraries installed on those drives unusable as the main software elements are on C drive. So this is huge problem. I should of probably set it to defer updates instead of actually make it downloading it. But with Windows now days- it will attempt to download it and install sooner or later and if it fails, restores and continues doing it over and over, it would not be useful any way. So what can I do now? Thank you.