Windows 10: Windows Server 2016 Update stuck in startup loop.

I recently ran an update on my print server and now the server won't move past the blue "Getting Windows ready". I am able to boot into safe mode and access a command prompt but can't use sconfig or dism. It says those commands are not found. I'm running Windows Server 2016 on a vm in vsphere. I recently found out that this vm is not backed up in our environment.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Windows Server 2016 Upgrade

When updating from windows server 2012 R2 to server 2016, I'm not getting the step by step procedures where you can select keep file and apps and other steps. I just get the setup screen, which after couple of minutes it display a window to select what type of windows server you want to install.

Once selected it does a full install of windows server 2016, which re-images the C drive. Afterwards you have to re-install all your applications.

Any suggestions on why it doesn't go through the step by step procedures.

Thank you,

Ron

 

Windows 10 update Aug 2016 Stuck in a loop

Just recently updated Windows 10 (Aug 2016) now my laptop is stuck in a loop and would not load Windows. The start screen tells me it is restoring previous version of Windows (which was also Windows 10) but fails to load Windows and is stuck in this loop.
I believe the update didn't work. Is there another way I can get back to previous version of Windows without losing any files on my laptop. Need some help.

Thanks

 

Stuck in startup repair boot loop, C drive is in RAW

Okay. I'll try with disk genius. - - - Updated - - - Okay I tried this command with disk genius.

I got this result.

Then I tried this command.

and got this result.

I forgot to mention earlier. 1 hour back, when I checked my C drive it is back to normal. I was able to run chkdsk /f and /r These analyses were done after that. The issue hasn't got resolved yet and I'm still stuck on the startup repair loop. - - - Updated - - - Okay. So I eventually created an image of my C partition using Macrium Reflect PE environment. Everything went fine. For some unknown reason, the image was of approximately 100gb in size whereas my C partition was occupied upto almost 175 GB. Then I booted using the windows 10 USB and deleted all the partitions of the C drive during the installation menu that asks for the location of windows 10. Then I chose the newly formatted C partition to install windows. The installation went fine. I got to the desktop wallpaper screens and icons. Then I booted using Macrium and restored using the image file. After I restarted my laptop. I got this error.

After pressing enter, I got this.

Then I checked in the boot menu of my BIOS. To my surprise, my SSD was not listed in the boot menu. Don’t know why.

Then I booted using Win 10 USB, and ran sfc scannow. I also ran DISM, trying to restore the image from the official windows files present on the usb drive and got these results.

Upon checking the volume information, I got this.

I also tried to fix the bcd using the following commands. bcdboot c:\Windows /s Z: /f ALL The letter Z was assigned to the 100mb ESP partition on the D drive Now this 100mb partition is present on my D drive (SATA). The bcd fixing went well. I got the message ‘Boot files successfully created’ Unfortunately I didn’t click a photograph of the result. Now I booted again in windows and I am seeing this result.

After pressing enter, I got this.

Now I am stuck and absolutely clueless about my next step. Please advise.