When it is impossible to get past the freezing update screen (as the only solution that was possible to do, as suggested by searching via this phone), you more or less are stuck trying to break the loop for days until you finally realize you are using what
is now little more than an expensive office toy. This is disconcerting when you have no idea how to correct that, to say the least.
I'm not sure which could possibly be more harmful: letting it stay like that for more hours, or shut it down a third time and turn it back to watch it it to most likely do the same thing again: immediately return to an update screen which will freeze after
approximately ten seconds. "Hard drive light", percentage, that little wheel of smaller circles spinning above the text and all.
The highest it has gotten before freezing was 81 percent. A few reboots later, it has fallen to seventy five.
Phones, or at least safari, cannot download the troubleshooter.
As for a "recovery disc" mentioned somewhere, I'm not sure if that's an option either- unless it can work faster than or ignore the ten-second timeframe, assuming we actually have one.
The windows key does not work, nor ctrl alt delete.
I think I can safely assume that I am out of ideas; continuing to force shut down seems counterproductive and unwise.
Writing this is partly an attempt to grasp at humor, and possibly a last effort to find a solution.
If it turns out things are pretty much hopeless, I guess it could stay a desk toy or giant paperweight?
I don't know that much about computers that don't seem to want to function, obviously. Mentioning the exact system doesn't seem important in this case.
I'm not sure if noting that it sucessfully updated with the new patch about a week ago despite suddenly deciding to do it again would be relevant anymore or at all, either.
Any advice?
