I have a dual-boot machine with Win10 on one partition. This morning, Windows installed a large update with the comment "your machine will restart several times". Sure enough, the update took forever, and afterwards...there's only Windows 10 left.
I haven't yet gone spelunking with a LiveCD, but Win10 updates have been known to nuke entire partitions, not just the bootloader. Time will tell...
For what it's worth, the Windows update history shows: KB 3176937, 3176935, and 3193494. This would appear to be a group of updates that lead to "Windows 10 version 1607".
This week, Microsoft pushed out another cumulative update and reports of installation problems are widespread. While I don't know how many users are impacted, based on comments sent to me, it's certainly widespread enough that this is well beyond an isolated issue.
The update that is causing the problem, KB3194496, is not installing correctly for users. The update, when it does fail, is causing some machines to restart, often multiple times, as Windows 10 attempts to remove the failed update. Worse, after a restart, the file will attempt to install again resulting in the loop of failed install, reboot, re-install and failure again.
Some users have reported that the cumulative update did install correctly on the second or third attempt while others have said that it fails every time.
[...] Microsoft is pushing the idea that you should always patch your machine on the day the update is released as they often release security patches that fix vulnerabilities. But, until the company can get a handle on their quality control issues, such as the Anniversary update breaking millions of webcams, it feels like every time you run Windows update you are rolling the dice.
Some have found a solution to their problem here.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday October 03 2016, @03:59AM
I had *no* problems with the latest Windows 10 update! Of course, I also had no problems with the upgrade to Windows 10 in the first place, I had no problems with Windows 8.0 or 8.1, nor any problems with Windows 7. Also had no problems at all with Wista, XP, or NT based 2000 systems, none, nada, zip. No problems. The last Microsoft OS I ran was Windows 95. Nothing but Linux since them. Microsoft free since 1996! No Problems with Windows! At all.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 03 2016, @04:08AM
Will you pat yourself on the back or do you have a Greek slave boy to do it for you? ;)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday October 03 2016, @05:30AM
*crickets*
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday October 03 2016, @07:40PM
You have crickets to do it for you?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday October 03 2016, @10:16PM
That is how they make their cricket noise, patting themselves on their backs, though with their legs. I have no slaves, since slavery is abhorrent to any human who is sufficiently human. But the worst kind of slavery is that where the slaves are such by their own volition, as with Microsoft users. Only now, at the end, do they realize just how much they were giving away, how much they were abusing their own humanity, and how much power the Redmond side of the Force possesses!