Ha- I've had this problem for almost a year. Restart, restart, restart, recover. Multiple days wasted. Still haven't managed to complete the update. Haven't tried pulling the wifi card yet. But as many have said... I shouldn't have to.
BRING BACK WINDOWS XP!!!! The only Win OS I never had issues with. I just installed XP on my daughters 15 yr old free laptop(for browsing & movies) because it couldn't run anything else. Found Service Packs 1,2,3 online and installed them manually. Guess what....runs better then my new computer with Win 10!