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Windows 10 update--9 hours in, spinning circle on a black screen

My laptop prompted me to restart it last night for updates to Windows 10. I restarted it, it ran the first updates which seemed normal, then reset itself. Then it said it was doing more updates. The status screen used smaller text than the previous one and didn't look like the normal "updates" screen. It said something to the effect of "expect this to take a while."

Now, 9 hours later, I wake up to see a black screen with a spinning circle (the circle is made of dots). I'm scared to do a hard reset incase something isn't installed yet and thus basically murdering the OS.

(Side note: this exact thing happened with another laptop about a month or two back. I just cut all power after 48 hours and gave up on it--didn't think about posting here and don't want to spend money on it right now since most of my computing occurs on my phone.)



Submitted December 31, 2017 at 02:51PM by importantlyearnest http://ift.tt/2C0lsNl
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