Solved Lenovo Laptop Stuck in a Reboot During Latest Win 11 Update

Booted my Lenovo laptop this morning to find that it was in the middle of an update. Had a lot on my mind and didn't pay much attention. But I saw it go from 11% complete to over 20% complete - it was going VERY slowly. Then it evidently needed a reboot. Now I have been looking at this screen for at least 40 minutes:



The warnings are so dire about not interrupting the update process I am afraid to do anything. What's my safest option? I apologize for how little info I've provided. Silly me, I expected the process to work.

Thanks very much for any advice. Bob

In this video, i will guide you on how to fix Windows update is stuck in an endless loop on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Thanks VERY MUCH FreeBooter! Unfortunately, I can't get back to this today. But I will certainly be working on it tomorrow. And again, thanks very much for your response.

Bob

bob17821 said:

Thanks VERY MUCH FreeBooter! Unfortunately, I can't get back to this today. But I will certainly be working on it tomorrow. And again, thanks very much for your response.

Bob

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You are very welcome, let us know how it works out.

FreeBooter, What is the software which you are starting with? I.E. the app/software which displays this menu?



Thanks, Bob

Hi Bob,

This is Windows built-in and the menu is from the OS itself.
You get there by Powering off/on your computer THREE times.

do you have an image created before the update, something like Macrium? if so you can restart your machine and load the image and try the update again. If the worse comes to the worse and you have to reboot, go to Settings> Windows update>Advanced options under Additional options is recovery and you should be able to uninstall the update from there

bob17821 said:

FreeBooter, What is the software which you are starting with? I.E. the app/software which displays this menu?

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Thanks, Bob

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Open the Command Prompt and execute commands i have executed in video.

FreeBooter: The menu no longer contains "Command Prompt" -

Select Troubleshoot option.

Thanks much to everyone who has responded to this thread. I now have a functioning Win 11 system. But I don't have 22H2. (Actually I don't recall ever seeing what update it was trying to install but I am guessing 22H2.) Whatever it was trying to install I'd guess it will try again someday. I need to take a break from this for a few days, but then will be back asking how to prevent the same problem from reoccurring the next time Microsoft tries to install 22H2 (or whatever it was trying to install). Thanks again to all of you. You are generous with your time and expertise and I am grateful for it. Bob

You are very welcome!