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ASUS TUF A15 stuck in Windows recovery/update corruption loop after Windows update.

The update (i think is the source of the issue) made my laptop freeze, i tried to remove it and was successful, however when i restarted it would again reinstall it, i tried to uninstall and again boot in and quickly disable updates but although i disabled updates the update was there, i tried to get rid of it and now i couldn't, i tried to system restore before the update happened but now it's just stuck in the loop and no other restore points available cause this was the only one before the update

Laptop:

- ASUS TUF A15

- Ryzen 7 4800H

- WD PC SN530 NVMe SSD

- Windows 11

What happened:

- Windows installed an update

- After reboot, system would not boot normally

- Safe Mode would not work

- Startup Repair failed

- “Uninstall latest quality update” failed

- System Restore also failed

Symptoms/errors:

- Continuous recovery loop

- Error: \Windows\System32\Config\SYSTEM

- Error code: 0xc0000225

- SFC failed with “Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation”

- DISM /RevertPendingActions failed with Error 2

- bootrec /scanos detected 0 Windows installations initially

What I already tried:

- chkdsk C: /f /r

- completed successfully

- corrected filesystem errors

- 0 KB bad sectors

- rebuilt EFI bootloader successfully using:

bcdboot C:\Windows /s Z: /f UEFI

- renamed SoftwareDistribution and catroot2

- tried bootrec commands

- fixmbr succeeded

- fixboot gave “Access denied”

- RegBack folder exists but contains 0-byte backups

Current status:

- BIOS detects SSD normally

- Windows Boot Manager exists

- SSD appears healthy

- Bootloader seems repaired

- Windows still fails due to corrupted SYSTEM registry hive

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