I've done a clean install of Windows 2 weeks ago, and got 235 updates yesterday, it took roughly 2.5 hours to download them all.
When I booted back up today it was 'Preparing to configure Windows' for 1 hour, and then 'Failure configuring Windows Updates Reverting Changes Do not Turn off your pc' showed up
It hung / got stuck on this progress, and now whenever I boot up my PC it says 'Preparing to configure Windows' for 3 seconds & then immediately goes to the 'reverting changes' part. which gets stuck immediately.
I can't spam the function keys on bootup as my keyboard will crash & not work.
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First download and create a bootable operating system, I'd suggest MiniXP from Hiren.
Boot into MiniXP and run
net stop wuauserv then del %systemroot%SoftwareDistributionDataStoreLogsedb.log (note this location may change when in MiniXP)
Once this is done, reboot your PC and attempt to install the updates again - check your AV to ensure it is not restricting the install.
ThisIsNotMyRealNameThisIsNotMyRealName
Boot into Windows recovery environment and run a system repair few times. Probably 3 times. It should fix the boot and service related issues. Alternatively, try safemode and if you can get through, you can do a system restore.
Windows Update Failed Reverting Changes
If nothing works, please try this procedure. This also lists how you should get into the repair environment.
EpoxyEpoxy
Failure Configuring Windows Updates Reverting Loop
My mother-in-law's win7 laptop was stuck in this boot loop. What worked for me was getting to the cmd line from the windows repair and running:
dism.exe /image:D: /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
Got an error message the first time I ran it, ran a second time with no errors. Restarted and voila.
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riotburnriotburn
Here's an anecdote that might help you have some patience to wait out a very long update reversal, if you see your hard disk light very active during the rollback.
My computer took 8 hours to roll back a failed update, but it succeeded.
I believe the cause of my Windows Update failure was triggered by Windows Disk Cleanup tool, which I used for the first time the other day. Then Office wanted to do an update. I read many reports about Windows Disk Cleanup damaging the update files.
Despite the long process, I got back to the desktop, nothing was broken, but then I was out of disk space.
Looking around I found c:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWER filled with files dated the same time of the rollback. The files were monstrous, like 400MB to 14GB! I'm guessing it took so much time writing these error dump files, and once it eventually ran out of disk space the roll back completed in minutes.
My theory - the more disk space you have, the longer the wait.
I manually deleted all that WER debris and am back running fine. (Delete was another long delay!)
jwsjws
I am giving the simplest way out. When you get the repair options, click on windows image recovery, then don' select anything. Select, the 2nd option that is select a system image, and then click advanced and then it should open up windows explorer. Now go to D or C wherever windows is , then Software Update after that, you will see many folders, delete datastore,download,selfupdate,post boot event cache.Then cancel the image recovery and reboot, it will show configuring windows but within 5 minutes , pc will boot up. THIS IS 100% WORKING, GOT THIS SOLUTION WHILE EXPERIMENTING. AND WORKS WITH ALL PCS.
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Thanks so much for your response and advice. Update: Right after I signed up here and made this post, a sheer miracle happened. I was about to start preparing for the re-install, when I heard a familiar sound coming from my pc. The one you get when your pc boots up and looks for the drive to boot from..it had been hours since my last attempt at trying to get somewhere with it and there had been no sound coming from it at all. I tapped the mouse and the monitor came to life. I think I went into shock when I saw my log on on the screen. I logged in and it told me that restore had completed successfully, it also told me the date it had reverted to. I had read many posts where people afflicted with this problem eventually found their systems finishing after hours, but I do believe I hold the record with 3 days +. I do believe though that I will still do a clean re-install, AFTER I get everything off that I want and need, since I really don't know what state my system is in now. Any thoughts on that?
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