Win 10 Bootcamp won't boot after forced Windows Update

Thank you for the tipp with gpedit. I will follow this and try to prevent windows from the updates.

Concerning USB I am not sure. Since my Windows was unstable I every time checked it and disconnect all USB before start and shutdown. I am not sure it helps or not.

Those days I bough winclone 6. I now save an image of my bootcamp partition. A bit strange is that Winclone saves this image on an MacOS formatted drive, but the original data format is NTFS. I hope it can restore this when I need it.

Do you have experience with Winclone 6?

I did yesterday the image save with winclone 6. Hope it can restore if I need it, because it will need to access the bootcamp partition, which seems to be read only, because it is formatted in NTFS.

Other feedback for you: I had no crashes after following Shirleys advice with 1703 image. I installed some games and also the Oculus Rift software and all went well.

Next step is to follow your advice with the group editor to stop updates and also I dare to install the GPU drivers from bootcamp.com. So far I used the drivers apple install for bootcamp, it is version 6.3.

I would like to take the opportunity to give you a big "Thank You"!

First of alle I installed the group editor and changed the settings for updates. This saves me the money for Windows 10 Pro license.

Second I took your advice to download the drivers from bootcamp.com. They make a big difference for the Oculus Rift. The game Fallout 4 was unplayable before, very jerky even with lowest settings. Now all goes smooth and I changed nothing other than install those graphic drivers.

I do backups with winclone and keep always the last two.

Restore Points do not help me. Yes I create them frequently, but if Windows come to its endless boot loop it will not accept any restore points. This was the basic problem Shirley outlined at the beginning of the thread.

It is very strange. If this happens I can do nothing any more. Repair and Restore do not work and also with a repair DVD or bootstick can do nothing. So in this case all otherwise valid options fail.

I would be glad if you just somewhere here will give a short statement when you think this problem is solved. So long I try to let all updates deactivated, what works well so far.

jochengermany wrote:

I would be glad if you just somewhere here will give a short statement when you think this problem is solved.

Definitely, I can post a message on this discussion.

jochengermany wrote:

So long I try to let all updates deactivated, what works well so far.

With potential new security issues being discovered very frequently, this is risky. As long as you are aware of your public connections and monitor them well or do not connect from Windows to any public networks, it may not be an issue.

As I wrote before each time I had to install W10 anew it is less than before that I do on the windows side of my system.

In fact its only games (most on Steam) and the games from Oculus Rift glasses that remain on the windows partition. I hope one day apple supports games better, then I can delete windows entirely.

I do not even us internet on windows. Just play games and close it. So I guess I can live some time without updates. Maybe after some months I just give it a try and if it fails I can restore with winclone.

Is this on a Grey Screen when macOS tries to boot? A screen shot would be helpful.

Okay, when MacOS tries to boot I did a screenshot.

Yes, 1709 and 1803, both have issues. W10 Forced Updates do not leave much choice in your hands, unless you want to run W8.1.

jochengermany wrote:

Do you have experience with Winclone 6?

I have used Winclone 4.4. I have restored and/or moved Windows to/from many Macs using Winclone.

Glad to see you making progress. ✅

Excellent. Please remember to backup Windows and create a Windows System Restore point.

The 'boot loop' is a bug in Windows RE. I assume Microsoft is aware of it and will fix it eventually.

By the way: I could use one old post from you about Bootcamp, where you recommend to reset Controller and disconnect from net before installing bootcamp. So I at least can reinstall Bootcamp now whenever I want.

I checked the net for forced updates and there is a workaround, which only is possible to do when you have Windows Pro. So after my next crash I will buy a Pro license.

Shirley said in her last post that she uses 1803 with some success. Would be nice to hear if she still can work.

I still guess it has to do with power management and USB connections. All critical failures in windows protocol are about this and no other problems.