PowerEdge: How to Fix No Boot After Windows Updates

Summary: We can Fix No Boot After Windows Updates by running DISM revertpendingactions command or manually remove individual updates with DISM with Remove-Package command.

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Instructions

  1. Boot to Windows media that matches the operating system we are trying to repair.
  2. Choose Repair your computer option then Troubleshooting the Command Prompt.
  3. From command prompt, locate the Windows folder on one of the drives. You can select each disk and run dir command until you locate the Windows folder. 
  4. Run the following command to revert pending actions where D: in this command will be whatever drive your Windows folder is on. 
DISM /Image:D:\ /Cleanup-Image /RevertPendingActions
You can attempt to boot normally after this is completed. If you still cannot boot, we can go a step further and try to manually remove individual update packages. Run the following commands. 
DISM /image:D:\ /Get-Packages
Locate the packages that were recently installed that could be causing the no boot issue. Then remove them with the following command.  
DISM /image:D:\ /Remove-Package /PackageName:PackageName
Replace "PackageName" with the name of the package in the list. Once package removed attempt to boot normal to see if the problem is resolved. You can repeat this to remove each recently installed package until you locate the one causing the no boot issue. 

See video below for walkthrough of this process.

Videos

Fix No-Boot After Updating Windows Server

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Affected Products

Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2022, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 , Microsoft Windows 2012 Server, Microsoft Windows 2012 Server R2 ...

Products

PowerEdge FC640, PowerEdge M640, PowerEdge M640 (for PE VRTX), PowerEdge MX740C, PowerEdge MX750c, PowerEdge MX760c, PowerEdge MX840C, PowerEdge R240, PowerEdge R250, PowerEdge R260, PowerEdge R340, PowerEdge R350, PowerEdge R360, PowerEdge R440 , PowerEdge R450, PowerEdge R540, PowerEdge R550, PowerEdge R640, PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R650, PowerEdge R650xs, PowerEdge R6515, PowerEdge R6525, PowerEdge R660, PowerEdge R660xs, PowerEdge R6615, PowerEdge R6625, PowerEdge R740, PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R740XD2, PowerEdge R7415, PowerEdge R7425, PowerEdge R750, PowerEdge R750XA, PowerEdge R750xs, PowerEdge R7515, PowerEdge R7525, PowerEdge R760, PowerEdge R760XA, PowerEdge R760xd2, PowerEdge R760xs, PowerEdge R7615, PowerEdge R7625, PowerEdge R840, PowerEdge R860, PowerEdge R940, PowerEdge R940xa, PowerEdge R960, PowerEdge T140, PowerEdge T150, PowerEdge T160, PowerEdge T340, PowerEdge T350, PowerEdge T360, PowerEdge T440, PowerEdge T550, PowerEdge T560, PowerEdge T640 ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000202880
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2025
Version:  8
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