I've got some HP laptops at the day job that've been giving me grief with various updates from 25h2 on (had a couple stuck in a perpetual 25h2 repair loop/crash rinse and repeat), and I've had to reset more than a few of them. Btw, done with HP for a spell because of this and some other models before them with other build quality issues.
Meanwhile, unless MS manages to fix said bugs that create catastrophically unstable OS problems, this won't mean squat because I've let some attempt to do resets for up to a week using cloud and local reinstall options only to fail repeatedly because of recurring system crashes. Now, as IT is only one of my many hats and I've got enough working spares on hand, I like to see how things play out when I see recurring issues arise on the same hardware across multiple machines. I've done the homework in checking reports and error codes, and finding online solutions, and occasionally jumped through all the hoops to manually fix, but it's often like rolling the dice, and ultimately I end up using a flash drive to end run this crap when my patience runs out.
Used to like cloud install options if for nothing more than being able to click away and let it do its thing. However, since we have the bandwidth to spare and I can walk away and check back on it later, I've seen how if the OS is unstable enough, it's meaningless, so I don't see how this will help either. To be fair though, the next time it comes up, I'll give it a try. Ironically just finished reinstalling the last one, that I know of, which is having update-related BSOD issues today. The problem that I've encountered is that if the PC is dependent on the on-drive Windows OS to handle or at least begin, the reinstall process, even when reaching out to the cloud to finish the job, if it is unstable enough, the system will inevitably crash during the process, and using a flash drive is the only way around this since it bypasses whatever is on the system drive during the BIOS handoff.
