After doing a disk clean job and rebooting , Windows is stuck first at 100% installing updates , then I forced a shutdown , now its stuck at 35% complete. What to do? Instead of messing around with repair can I just restore using a Macrium Image I made of the computer prior to using the disk clean tool ?
Tks
Hi sportflyer,
If you don't have a restore point prior to cleaning, that's is what I would recommend.
Seems as though you cleaned some Win Update files, OOPS!
Curious, what disk clean tool please?
Yes I did . I wanted to clean system files ( approx 10 G ) to prepare laptop for reinstalling windows 10 .
I used window's diskclean. Have used this many times on my other computers. This particular laptop (HP 72G series with pentium dual core cpu.) belongs to a friend and is really slow . Maybe I didn't wait long enough when it was at 100% . I fixed it by booting into safe mode and used recovery . My back up option was to re image but did not use it since recovery worked.
Thanks for the info sportflyer and glad to hear you resolved your issue!
I've never experienced an issue with Windows Disk Cleanup, even using
Disk Cleanup : Extended - Windows 7 Help Forums
Happy Computing!
Nic
My W7 also got stuck.
First at 100%
Then after a reboot at 35%
Safe mode and other startup options also ended up in 35%.
Finally I decided to just wait.
It took about 30 minutes, then W7 did continued successfully.
Patience was the key.
Last edited by robbie303; 09 Jan 2019 at 14:26.
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