requires a restart to finish installing 1709

My next step would be to format the SSD and reinstall Windows, but I can't leave this guy down a machine for half a day.

I then joined it to the domain and installed all the software it will need because it was a replacement for a user who's computer completely died, so they needed it back as soon as possible. Looking at update history showed 'restart required' but the restart did not install any updates, and the 'restart required' message still showed under the 1709 update, only now there were 5 or 6 failed updates for 1709 under it after a single installation attempt. The update took forever to download, forever to install, and then went immediately to 'No updates available'. Unfortunately, Installing it ends up with this stop code and doesnt settle after restarting or normal workarounds. If you look under Settings > Update & security and you see the message Status: Awaiting restart. I ran updates to start, and in the process of rebooting and installing a few times it finally got to the 1709 update. In some cases, a second restart may be required. Windows 10 installation went fine, and the OS was activated by the product key embedded in the BIOS for Pro.

Suffered hard drive failure and I installed an SSD and Windows 10. I have a computer that was originally Windows 8 downgraded to Windows 7.

Requires a restart to finish installing 1709