Windows update: something didn't go as planned every time i try to install an update

Thanks for the tutorial, although the issue still persists. MMy system partition is 99MB instead of 100, not sure if that's the issue.

My laptop has been displaying the “something has gone wrong” message for 5 days. I tried to turn off the and restart the laptop. It went back to thee we same message. How do I interrupt and repair this on my own?

Ill be darned, you just fixed a months long ongoing issue for me - thanks! I'm going to restate my situation so that Google may be able to help any poor soul that ends up in the same position as me:

I upgraded my HDD to an M.2. For whatever reason my boot drive didn't transfer so my new M.2 only had C partition. I had to create a new boot partition. Here's the kicker - that did not automatically change the partition type to "System". Following your above steps successfully changed the partition type and cleared my seemingly relentless update blockade!

To restate the instructions for those who had trouble following (like myself):

1. enter admin command prompt
2. type the following commands followed by enter key, one at a time:

• diskpart
• select disk [disk where C drive is located]
• select partition [partition containing 100 MB boot partition]
• SET ID=c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
• list partition [this is to ensure you selected the correct partition, you should see "System" partition with size of 100 MB]

following these steps, you should be able to immediately apply the update! Many thanks to you, martijn, you have solved a persistent issue for me and hopefully we are able to direct other people to the solution in the future!

And how did you do all that?

"This issue can occur if the computer does not have enough disk space to apply the update"

Please don't insult us.

We're getting this crappy cumulative update bug on VARIOUS devices while this is our space status:

The least you could do is admit that this is 100% Microsoft's own thing. Once upon a time (until 5 or so years ago) such update interruptions were unheard of in over 15 year continuous usage of Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft got bigger, and in the process, crappier, started lowering its software programming quality — that's all what happened here.

NONE of your suggestions helped. Now I have turned off Windows update as the damage it causes to hardware by constantly restart-reverting every couple of days outweighs having an older software.

I plan to see if the hacking community provides solution and then spread their solution far and wide.