Windows 10 Anniversary Update Bootloop

I have a Lenovo T430 that I updated to the new anniversary update. After a few restarts, it got stuck on the black boot screen with the moving white circles in a ring and nothing else. I manually restarted it and the same thing happened. I manually restarted again and went into BIOS and looked for a way to boot into recovery mode or safe mode or something like that. Unfortunately, there was none to be found. I exited without saving changes. The boot screen with the white dots moving in the ring showed again, but this time with words saying "Restoring your previous version of Windows..." After a few minutes of that, it booted up to the previous version with no issues. I am afraid to update now, and would like to know when a fix will be made available. I contacted a Microsoft customer support assistant, who was very helpful. I don't think I'm the only one who has had this concern based on what she told me. Let me know if any of you guys comes up with a permanent fix or when you guys hear about a new update to the update being released. Thanks.

TLDR: Got new update to Windows 10. Got stuck in bootloop. Got lucky and Windows restarted back in old version. Hoping there is a fix soon.

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I had the same experience installing the Anniversary update as coildspring51 did; installed great on one computer and failed on the other, getting stuck with the blank page with circle of spinning white dots.  I tried both method 1 and method 2 described by Akheel Ahmed and neither worked.  Even when installing with the USB key created by the Media Creation Tool I had the same problem.  I think the problem on my Acer was an error with one or more USB devices I had plugged into it during the upgrade.  After leaving the computer running for another several hours with the circle of spinning white dots and no movement whatsoever, I removed 3 different USB dongles which were used for wireless keyboards and mice and then did a hard shut down.  When the computer restarted, it detected the hard shutdown and went to "attempting to recover installation" and this time it picked up at 75% and resumed all the way through completion.  I hope this helps some of you who are having similar problems-- I recommend that you try removing all physical USB connections except your main, wired keyboard and mouse.  You can always reconnect them after the upgrade is complete.
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