Windows wont boot anymore after KB5067036

Hello,

2 days ago, my work computer updated to KB5067036. Before I left, I gave it a shutdown and update, but I stayed to see what happened, it restarted and started Automatic Repair automatically, but it resulted in the message "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC". I tried several times in RE startup repair, but it showed me the same message, I tried "uninstall updates", but it showed me the message: "you have pending update actions... try running startup repair instead. I tried system restore, I saw that it made a backup right at the time it downloaded and installed the update, but without success: " System restore failed while scanning the file system".
Since then I've been struggling to fix it. I have tried sfc /scannow, bootrec fixmbr, fixboot, dism offline. I also tried a few utilities from a copy of Hirens Boot Cd, nothing works. Now it doesn't even enter the Recovery Environment, I had a BSOD related to ntoskrnl.exe at one point, but now I have a BSOD related to winload.efi. I read somewhere on the forum that it would be possible to create a wim image from that restore point/shadow copy and apply the image with dism, but I don't know exactly how to do this.
Now let me tell you configuration:
At the time of the update I had 1 SSD with a partition (C:) where I had Windows 11, and a 2TB hdd with a single partition (E:)
What seemed strange to me, after that update, automatic repair appeared to save the log in partition E: and system restore also told me that the system files were in partition E:. I tried to change the partition letters with diskpart to reverse them as they were normally, but without success, then I used a partitioning utility on a usb, I think paragon and I reversed the letters as they should be, but it didn't help at all.
Has anyone else experienced this? And if you have any ideas how I could fix it, I really don't want to do a new installation. Of course I will give more details and attach everything needed. Thank you!

One or more of these links may be useful:

Thank you for the links, but i dont want to do a custom or clean install for the moment. I just want to know if there is any possibility to fix actual image of windows. Maybe someone knows how to create a wim image from shadowcopy of windows restore point and apply the image with dism or maybe other ideas how I could fix it. Thank you!

Try disabling pending actions using Dism command.

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.

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Thank you, i tried, now seems that my os partition changed on to D: letter.
I received error 1726, attached photos in google drive below, of running the dism revertpendingactions and dism.log
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What is on C: partition?

BogdanCristianS said:

At the time of the update I had 1 SSD with a partition (C:) where I had Windows 11, and a 2TB hdd with a single partition (E:)

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BogdanCristianS said:

attached photos in google drive below

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In the diskpart tool, the Windows partition isn’t always assigned the drive letter "C".

You have executed unnecessary commands — for example, bootrec /FixMbr. Unlike MBR disks, GPT disks don’t include traditional boot sectors; they have no Master Boot Record (MBR) or Volume Boot Record (VBR), since partitioning and boot data are handled differently. GPT disks rely on the UEFI firmware to directly load EFI files from the EFI system partition, so no MBR/VBR/active partition concept exists.

BogdanCristianS said:

but now I have a BSOD related to winload.efi.

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Did you get the following error?


You can try to repair the boot environment using the bcdboot command; however, for example, the error 0xc000000e can rarely be fixed with bcdboot.

Boot from the Windows USB stick. If the USB stick appears twice in the boot menu (once with the UEFI prefix and once without), you must choose the one with the UEFI prefix. Only then will the bcdboot command below automatically identify the FAT32-formatted EFI system partition.

Run the following commands at the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) command prompt:


Replace "x" with the volume letter of your Windows partition.

The bcdboot command copies the necessary boot files from the Windows partition to the EFI system partition and creates a new Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store on that partition.