Windows update 10/12/2022 broke my PC totally!

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Sorry this was posted twice - browser froze and I thought I had lost the post...

I am having the same problem; after installing Win 10 update computer boots quickly into the Welcome Screen (Date/Time). Peripherals don't work, pressing caps lock does not toggle the light on/off. I am using multiple keyboards/mice, usb dongle and USB hard wired. All work in BIOS, but are not recognized once I am in the Welcome Screen.

I have an M2 as my C drive and a mechanical as my D drive. C drive backs up weekly to the D drive.

The only way I can get the Win RE screen is to put in my original OS thumb drive (have the key) enter BIOS and choose the Thumb drive as first boot. Once in the Recovery I have tried everything: Uninstall updates (the second one fails), Command Prompt with several suggestions on this site (defaults to X drive, but I can switch to C or D, however the directory looks strange, but I have not been a cmd user for quite some time).

Restore - two different points, same results - That utility sees the Mechanical drive (D) as C - this I find strange as the BIOS sees the M2 as C and the boot drive

Re-image from and image on my C: drive... but it labels the recovery drive D as C (with the mechanical drives alias).

Please do not tell me that it is a coincidental hardware failure. It is not. This is a direct result of the Win Update.

Someone please help me. I can't turn off WIFI, ... or anything for that matter (upon restart the computer is completely unresponsive, no peripherals, however a minute or two later the www symbol changes to 'wifi connected).

Running memory test now, CPU seems fine, will edit once done (don't expect to find a problem).

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Did you get your system up and running?

It took the 3 power off and on real quick for me to get to windows recovery screen.

Did you get your system up and running?

It took the 3 power off and on real quick for me to get to windows recovery screen.

Don't let it get to log in screen, turn on, and off 3 times without letting it get to log in, that's only way it worked for me.

I can get into the recovery screen by booting off a thumb drive, but none of the options work.

Fix My Computer - runs but then fails and recommends I restore (I don't recall exact message)

CMD prompt suggestions:

Run, but do not fix anything

Can't run because I can't open prompt as an admin (or, can I)?

Runs, but fails before they complete.

Interestingly I noticed I only have one restore point now, one which was created after the update, which attempts to back out driver updates (but, of course if the week old and two week old restores/images don't work neither would I expect that to, and it didn't).

I'm going to wipe the drive tomorrow. It has been a decade since I did a windows re-install so I opened a new thread with a few questions.

Mattie

Did you get your system up and running?

It took the 3 power off and on real quick for me to get to windows recovery screen.

Don't let it get to log in screen, turn on, and off 3 times without letting it get to log in, that's only way it worked for me.

Yes I was eventually able to login after disabling fast boot and doing a rollback twice. Spent a couple of hours seeing if I could get the update to install again but it’s not going to happen. Spinning dots no matter how long I wait. Going to sit this one out for a few weeks.