Win7 auto update bricked

[JZStudios]

During the night MS apparently decided to auto update Win7 and I woke to my install of Win10 on another hard drive. When I tried to boot Win7 it got stuck configuring, after about 20 minutes it restarted itself, and then got stuck again, and I can't get it to boot. It launches fine in safe mode, but I don't know what to do there to solve the problem.

I have the Win7 disc, but when I tried to use startup repair I think it was trying to do it for Win10, and wouldn't let me. I've set the default OS to Win7... but I haven't tried booting directly to the disc drive yet...

Anyways, I've uninstalled the "latest" update in Win7 and can't seem to find the system restore.

 

Any help would be appreciated, I'm going to try changing my boot priority to the DVD drive and see if that works.

[Vishera]

3 minutes ago, JZStudios said:

During the night MS apparently decided to auto update Win7 and I woke to my install of Win10 on another hard drive. When I tried to boot Win7 it got stuck configuring, after about 20 minutes it restarted itself, and then got stuck again, and I can't get it to boot. It launches fine in safe mode, but I don't know what to do there to solve the problem.

I have the Win7 disc, but when I tried to use startup repair I think it was trying to do it for Win10, and wouldn't let me. I've set the default OS to Win7... but I haven't tried booting directly to the disc drive yet...

Anyways, I've uninstalled the "latest" update in Win7 and can't seem to find the system restore.

 

Any help would be appreciated, I'm going to try changing my boot priority to the DVD drive and see if that works.

In safe mode simply search "restore" and the system restore will appear in the results.

[JZStudios]

Just now, Vishera said:

In safe mode simply search "restore" and the system restore will appear in the results.

...fair enough. I'll try that.

 

Booting straight from the disc drive still tells me I have the wrong version of windows, with no option to pick my Win7 install.

[Vishera]

Just now, JZStudios said:

...fair enough. I'll try that.

 

Booting straight from the disc drive still tells me I have the wrong version of windows, with no option to pick my Win7 install.

It's because Windows 10 is confusing the Windows 7 installer,

Try with the Windows 10 drive disconnected.

[JZStudios]

21 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It's because Windows 10 is confusing the Windows 7 installer,

Try with the Windows 10 drive disconnected.

The system repair seems to have worked, just need to see if it fucks up the next time MS forces it to update.

I could've unplugged the Win10 drive, but... lazy I guess.

 

What's weird is I'm pretty sure the update is just a standard security update/malicious software removal that's never had a problem before.

Oh, cool. It's an update that make a full screen STOP USING WIN7 pop-up appear. Super rad.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4530734/windows-7-update-kb4530734

 

Yep, I definitely need that.