Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

JeganS — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:15:32 GMT

I can see the installed updates when I go to the control panel in safemode. Never knew that. I still haven't solved the problem thou. Apparently it is not the windows updates that is causing it. I flashed the bios too.

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

joscon [Microsoft] — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:16:09 GMT

Well you'd need to determine where your Windows installation is when booted into WinRE. To do this just do a DIR on each directory until you find it.

Because you're trying to get out of a no-boot situation (correct?), I'd just run the command and see if that helps you out. I dont have an offline image to play with right now to see if there is some other syntax issue you're hitting but it appears to be correct from what you have posted.

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

JeganS — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:59:48 GMT

DISM.exe /Image:C:\ /Get-Packages - Error - No Image available

DISM.exe /Image:E:\ /Get-Packages - Error - No Image available

DISM.exe /Image:D:\ /Get-Packages - gives a warning that scratchsize space is not adequate and proceeded to list all packages.

The last package was listed as 8/10/2010. I have done numerous updates since then. What is going on here? Am I doing something wrong?

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

joscon [Microsoft] — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:40:34 GMT

Sorry Jack, with comments locked out like they were I didnt have the opportunity to write you back. The WUSA tool is not available offline so you wont be able to use it in the way that you want to. Let me know if you're still having issues and we can look at it.

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

Jack — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:00:39 GMT

Hi, I am having this exact problem right now.

I tried this command which completed succusfully, although I never saw the screen you mention that should replace the "configuring your computer for windows" screen.

I also tried uninstalling the package with dism, and deleting the pending.xml file, both of which made no difference.

There were two other hotfixes installed at the same time before the problem starting occurring, and so I wish to try and uninstall them before resorting to a reinstall.

The problem is the other two hotfixes appear to be MSP patches, and I can not uninstall them with dism.

After doing some research, the wusa tool seems exactly what I need. However, trying to use wusa from with WinRE gives command not found.

Is there any way to use wusa or msiexec from within WinRE, and is there any way to uninstall particular hotfixes that can not be uninstalled via dism?

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

joscon [Microsoft] — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:04:14 GMT

Right now I am not sure on the plans to backport it but I will ask. I dont know what kind of code work is involved to make that happen. I do agree that it would be a good idea for Vista users.

Update: This is not going to be backported to Vista, just wanted to make that clear.

re: Getting out of a no boot situation after installing updates on Windows 7-2008R2

Vista — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:36 GMT

What about Vista users? I know DISM doesn't apply to Vista but surely MS could make a little cmdline tool to revert pending actions? On so so many Vista PCs I need to troubleshoot, I see systems stuck at this stage and they're thinking of reinstalling the OS all over again.