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Boggin:
Found this possible fix in my toolbox for the pending reboot which you could try.

Boot with either the install disk or into Safe Mode with Cmd Prompt to rename the pending.xml file

takeown /f x:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml

Ren x:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml pending.old

exit (to close the command window if booted up with the install disk)

Shutdown /r (if in Safe Mode with Command Prompt which will effect a reboot)

Reboot and try again.

As the Start button isn't working and everything seems to be screwed up, sometimes a cold boot can resolve.

That is where you disconnect the AC and remove the battery then hold the power button in for ~30secs - plug the AC back in and see how that performs, but if you have to boot up with the install disk to get to the command prompt, then run chkdsk c: /r after to see what that reports.

I think you said it gave the partition as C but use whichever partition letter bcdedit |find "osdevice" gave instead of C as required.

I can't find 0x8000ffff in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/938205 so don't know what that one is for.

Tone111:
Thanks again Boggin, but the immediate panic is over!  :smiley:

No idea what happened to the machine, but even though all the restore attempts said they'd failed with that same 8000ffff error code, after the last one I rebooted (back into normal mode) and a pop up message said that the system had been successfully restored! It was the oldest of the points however, the repair install one, so now it looks like it did after the repair with everything in fresh W7 mode again, but of course I'm back to having all 183 important updates to install  :omg: so I've bitten the bullet and just kicked it off with them all ticked!  :cheesy: see what that does.

I did also do a cold boot/reset and a chkdsk /r on both C: and E: while I was in repair mode before the system restore, and no errors were found, although it did correct the volume bitmap on one of the drives...

Checked on the updates not long back, it was on 18 of 181 (for some reason not all the 183 were ticked so I left the 2 odd ones off), and there was a message box saying that the .NET framework 4.5 was being repaired and to leave setup running the NetFxRepair until it had finished! I presume one of the WU has kicked this off? Nothing else was running.. It's not the first time I've had .NET framework issues, having run the repair tool in the past to try resolve problems, so whether this was what caused the earlier weird text display problems, or whether it's a "new" update installation issue I don't know.  :thinking: The repair's completed now and it needs restarting to get the .NET working correctly again, but as the updates are running along nicely (55 now) I think I'll leave it updating for the minute and turn it off when I go to bed, hopefully interrupting the updates won't cause problems, we'll see... :undecided:

Boggin:
What did the chkdsk /r report for bad sectors ?

I think I would have just set the laptop to High performance and left on overnight for the WUs as I prefer not to disrupt those.

When you restart it, that will effect the .NET Framework fix and may aid the WUs.....

Tone111:
It didn't report anything for bad sectors, just said it had made a correction to the bitmap volume.

It's an all-in-one desktop (monitor with contained HDD etc), not a laptop, and I tried to leave it on Sleep mode so I could continue straight on this morning, but when I came down it was still on, and the updates had moved on to 150! Not sure how without my phone and no internet, but there you go - I reconnected my phone, hooked up the net, and it appears to be stuck on 150 (been on 3033929 for about half an hour now!) so I'm probably best stopping the installation and rebooting I guess, and seeing how the restart and continued updates go.... :undecided:

Boggin:
WUs have to download before they can install, so if they've all downloaded and it's in the install phase then it wouldn't need an Internet connection to continue.

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