Computer Won't Start Up After failed attempts to install MSFT updates

[prizice24]

Please help!

Like many times in the past, windows had been prompting me to install updates. I selected the option to install these updates before I shut my computer down. My screen would read "installing update 1 of 3" or something similar, but would stay on that screen for hours until I would perform a hard shut down. This happened several times before my computer simply stopped starting up.

System Restore doesn't work and neither does anything else. A Startup Repair message flashes on my screen saying "Windows cannot repair this computer automatically. If you have recently attached a device to this computer, such as a camera or protable music player, remove it and restart your computer. If you continue to see this message contact your system adminstrator or computer manufacturer for assistence.

 

[kjv1611]

If you have your Windows install disk, you can reinstall Windows without affecting your programs and such, or run a repair install. Either way will leave programs in place, and hopefully fix your issue(s). Of course, doing so will lose any updates you've made.

However, with you mentioning that it actually froze the whole system to where you had to do a hard power-off, then it may be the RAM or Hard Drive actually causing the issue.

You can run some tests to see if you want. Unless you have something else that you prefer, the easiest to start with is the UltimateBootCD. Then if you need a program to burn it to CD, download ImgBurn, and install it, then burn the ISO image of UltimateBootCD... then of course, boot the failing system with that CD, and run at least 1 memory test and 1 hard drive test. If neither of those show anything up, or if you prefer, run an "all in one" type test that checks the whole system.

More important than any of the above.... Do you have any important data that you don't want to lose on the hard drive? If so, before you do anything else, take it out of the computer, and connect it to a working computer, so you can at least attempt to back-up important files. You can't backup programs, but you can backup your documents, pictures, videos, music, whatever.

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