Windows Update forced my PC into recovery mode (and none if the options work)

Zooka128

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Begrudgingly let my PC update and after restart, it just put my PC into recovery mode and all of the options for “Restore PC” just come up saying some error (I’d check specifically what but I’m a couple hours into a chkdsk).

Is there a fix for this? If not, how do I reset because there’s no option anywhere on the recovery mode.
 
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Hey, I did try that and also ran the chkdsk.

From the recovery Window, I can force it to boot but upon booting, I can’t login with my pin and after that, it tries to reapply a Windows update. From there, I get the error “\systemprofile\Desktop cannot be found” once it finally loads.

I tried registering the dlls to get explorer.exe and I checked my registry to check the paths for some stuff and they were correct. Explorer.exe token still can’t be found, so Windows explorer still doesn’t run (just have icons on my desktop that flash because I moved Desktop into the systemprofile).

I can’t find any other solutions, so I’ve bought an external hard drive that I’m going to try and put any files I care about on and then just wipe because I guess that the Windows update has ended up badly corrupting some stuff, unfortunately, and my CD drive has never worked properly so I can’t boot off of a CD.
 


Hello again

You can still try creating a bootable USB as explained here.

As an alternative, you can even try downloading the ISO file for Windows 10 as explained in the same tutorial, and then create a USB from it. However, you may need a different PC for either of the methods.

Cheers!!
 
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