As some know, my Windows 10 PC has had a problem where after installing updates and rebooting to apply them, the PC would get a hardware hang, and have to be powercycled and it would revert them.
People said 'you need to get that fixed' and they had a point.
My best theory was a cause of bent CPU socket pins.
Finally today I decided to try to get it fixed after seeing a local PC repair shop. I described the problem and left the pc.
They called that it was now unbootable. I went over and they had reproduced the problem and when it tried to revert the upgrade they were worried and interrupted it.
That left Windows totally broken. I tried an os repair from an install drive, it didn't help.
I saw it had also created a Windows.old directory where it put all my files.
With no other options I did a new install after backing up files. Surprisingly it kept data but now I have 1.5tb of programs unusable.
Any ideas for better recovery?
The current condition: When I boot, it comes up with a choice whether to boot from the new OS called "Windows 10" even though it's Windows 10 Pro, or the old OS called "Windows 10 Pro", which if selected spends a while in the boot process before getting a black screen. Once booted on the new OS, it has my desktop without my shortcuts, and all my old files under the "windows.old" directory".
The only option I'm seeing is to manually one at a time re-install each of hundreds of programs, and then try to figure out how to delete the original install taking up space in windows.old.
For each I'll have to try to figure out if I can preserve any information I want from the old install.
That seems nightmarish.
I'd like to get back my old OS repaired recognizing my old desktop and installed programs. If I can't do that I'd like to have the new OS install somehow use the 'windows.old' information to recognize those programs as installed and move them back out of 'windows.old'.
People said 'you need to get that fixed' and they had a point.
My best theory was a cause of bent CPU socket pins.
Finally today I decided to try to get it fixed after seeing a local PC repair shop. I described the problem and left the pc.
They called that it was now unbootable. I went over and they had reproduced the problem and when it tried to revert the upgrade they were worried and interrupted it.
That left Windows totally broken. I tried an os repair from an install drive, it didn't help.
I saw it had also created a Windows.old directory where it put all my files.
With no other options I did a new install after backing up files. Surprisingly it kept data but now I have 1.5tb of programs unusable.
Any ideas for better recovery?
The current condition: When I boot, it comes up with a choice whether to boot from the new OS called "Windows 10" even though it's Windows 10 Pro, or the old OS called "Windows 10 Pro", which if selected spends a while in the boot process before getting a black screen. Once booted on the new OS, it has my desktop without my shortcuts, and all my old files under the "windows.old" directory".
The only option I'm seeing is to manually one at a time re-install each of hundreds of programs, and then try to figure out how to delete the original install taking up space in windows.old.
For each I'll have to try to figure out if I can preserve any information I want from the old install.
That seems nightmarish.
I'd like to get back my old OS repaired recognizing my old desktop and installed programs. If I can't do that I'd like to have the new OS install somehow use the 'windows.old' information to recognize those programs as installed and move them back out of 'windows.old'.
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