Windows Update prompted me to install the 1809 update for Windows 10 recently.

I left the machine for a while and came back to find it frozen at a completely blank screen.

It eventually restarted...and got stuck in a continual loop where the Windows logo would flash for a second and then instantly restart again.

The restart occurred so early in the boot process that I couldn’t even get it into recovery mode or do anything with it to fix it.

So I had no choice but to reinstall Windows from scratch and reinstall and restore all my software and files. Took about 7 hours.

Not happy!

Yeah, this was in a dual boot setup on a MacBook Pro. I could get into the EFI settings and stuff, but I couldn’t do anything to fix the Windows installation – it was just stuck in a reboot loop no matter what I did. I messed with it for about an hour and then gave up and just reinstalled from scratch.

Of course, after reinstalling, I was back at version 1803 since that’s what I had available, so I had to install 1809 again. The second time it installed with no issue whatsoever. I have no idea what caused it to fail the first time.

Now I have it set up in a Parallels VM, instead of a Boot Camp partition, so if any future updates screw it up, I can just restore it from an earlier snapshot.

I had a similar experience with a new laptop, I couldn't access the log in form. It's 20 fucking 19 Microshit