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Circling white dots return after Windows 10 Anniversary update
Posted on 2016-10-06
After many attempts (described in another question), I finally got the Windows 10 Anniversary update installed. All was well for a few hours, then I got a notification that I needed to restart. Shortly after the restart, the circling white dots on a black screen appeared, and never progressed. There was no message. I have turned the computer off and on several times, in hopes that it would go back to the previous state, but that has not happened. Any suggestions?
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How long did you leave it running? When I did my upgrade the whole process took almost 12 hrs.
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The upgrade did complete normally, as far as I could tell, going through many phases (at least three blue screen phases with % complete), and ending up on my Windows desktop. This may be the last phrase of the upgrade, or possibly it was trying to restore some audio files I had to uninstall in order to get through the upgrade. Usually the black screen with the circling white dots only lasts a minute or so.
Active 2 days ago
Let it go over night and see what happens.
Other than that I suppose you could wipe the machine and just do a bare-meatal install using the now-available ISO.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO/
Or download the ISO and run the update from that.
Other than that I suppose you could wipe the machine and just do a bare-meatal install using the now-available ISO.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO/
Or download the ISO and run the update from that.
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I really would rather not do that (though I do have an up-do-date Carbonite backup if needed). I will leave it on the circling white dots stage overnight.
Active today
I left it circling overnight, and it was still hung on the circling white dots this morning. But after I turned it off and on again, after a few seconds I heard the Windows opening sound, and my desktop opened! So maybe something was going on overnight after all.
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Thanks for the link. I didn't need it this time, but I have a Windows 10 DVD now in case of need in the future.
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