Windows server reboot loop - uninstalling hotfixes

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Published on 2010-05-08T12:45:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 12:48 UTC
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After installing 3 updates, my system is stuck in a reboot loop.

I am using server 2008 r2.

I have tried deleting pending.xml from the windows directory, so pelase don't suggest that.

I tried

dism /image:d:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions

which completed successfully but did not solve my issue

I then tried:

dism /image:d:\ /Remove-Package /PackageName:

and sucusfully removed one of the 3 updates.

The two updates that are left are not listed with the dism get-packages command, but are listed with the get-apppatches command.

I cannot find a way to uninstall them with dism however.

So my question is, how can I manually uninstall specific updates or hotfixes from within the winre environment?

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