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I apologize for disappearing like that...



10 days ago I was rushed to the hospital (I spare you the details), and a few days my computer followed. I tried for over a week to get it to connect to the hospital's Wi-Fi, but without success.



Today the allowed me to go home for a few hours, to do some important tasks, including Windows Updates. But at the end I have not achieved much....



Don't know when I will be permanently back; perhaps in a week or so...


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Pat, very sorry to hear that you are having health issues. I hope it will soon be improved and you will be home again.



In the meantime, I hope you manage to find a way to connect to the internet - I am sure that I can speak for everyone when I say that your presence on the forum will be missed until you are recovered and back home.



Get Well Soon!



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What I managed to do yesterday was to kill Windows 10 completely! When I connected my system to my LAN at home, it immediately started downloading & installing Windows Updates. That's what I expected.



When it came to a restart, I went to lie down for a few minutes, and when I came back, the screen was black. Power Off/On just goes to that black screen at the end.



I am trying to set up a Windows 10 repair now, but so far I have not been able to complete the Windows 10 ISO on my old XP system! Something is trying to drive me crazy...


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As and when you get it back you can get it to do a controlled restart/install (when you want) rather than the immediate install it tries to do.



In the Settings app, go to


Update & Security > Windows Update


and then click the Advanced options button.


In the drop-down box, switch the setting to “Notify to schedule restart.”



See Method 1 here :- http://www.askvg.com/fixing-windows-10-automatic-updates-install-problem/


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It's unbelievable how quickly an afternoon goes by...



I have managed to download the Windows 10 installer ISO onto an external disk.


The Microsoft Media Creation Tool as well.



Subsequently I found that I need a number of additional things to get that thing on a USB memory stick (including a larager 8GB stick)...



And just now it completed the generation of the bootable USB device. Up to phase two now - the Windows 10 repair. I have an hour, then I must go back to the hospital.



Thanks for all the good wishes, and also your PM link, Irene.


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And just now the tool tells me that it has still been unable to run bootsect, despite me downloading the 32-bit version into the same folder as the rest of the downloads (that's what it says in the online help http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool).



I may get discharged from the hospital before I can fix my computer...


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