[cdr]

The Anniversary Update completely hosed the Windows install on my desktop.

It got stuck at 15% installing with the infamous spinning circle - I let it run 8 hours at 15% just to be sure because there is zero info given to you beyond the spinning circle. Then when I rebooted the machine it got stuck "Restoring previous version of Windows", again I gave it 8 hours. A third reboot and it failed to boot, forcing me to spend a couple hours fiddling with the command line tools in the recovery environment to repair the boot record.

And I still have no idea why it failed, and Google has no answers either beyond vague suggestions like unplugging all USB devices before the install runs.

Not looking forward to losing a day of work to it again, but not like I have a choice.

How does Microsoft screw up Windows that badly? They've had 20 years to figure stuff like this out.