Windows 10 Anniversary Update Disaster!

Michelle Cleary

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Feb 17, 2015
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Windows 10 anniversary update tried to install on my PC last night. Everything was working hunky-dory when it says my computer into a restart cycle conflicting with AVG Watchdog. I cut the power manually and quickly pressed Shift to access a restore point. All my restore points were wiped out. Nbd since I backup files regularly and can do a clean install. After 3 attempts to do a clean Windows 10 install, it will not complete. It goes through the Windows install percentage screen, then about after 20% it keeps getting stuck on a black screen with spinning dotted circle. It ran for several hours last night then stopped. Now I am trying again and this time it's been running for a half an hour spinning with no change.

Can't get into safe mode and diagnostics say everything is fine. Could this be the anniversary update taking a long time or something else?

Btw it's 64 bit Windows 10 free home. Whatever the free upgrade from 7 was. My factory partition with Windows 7 restore point also seems to be gone when I upgraded to 10 in June this year. Help!!!
 
I can't even get past the Windows Recoverey Environment to repair my OS let alone uninstall/delete a program. I keep getting error messages through the Avanced Options. System Restore, fresh install without keeping files, and Auto Repair are not working with no explanation or error codes. There's no backup/restore point, there's no old Windows 7 partition available to boot from anymore because Windows 10 overwrote it. My computer is officially a brick!
 


Did you format your harddisk before doing the clean installation of Win 10. where did you backup your files to? An external HDD ?