Windows update consumed all of my hard drive

I blogged about "Surviving a botched windows update" two weeks ago after the December 12, 2017 Windows Update.  I thought my problems were behind me. I was so wrong.  It took almost two weeks to find and fix the problem. What a waste of time.

Here are the four symptoms:

1. Ran out of hard drive free space (200+ gb of free space suddenly disappeared)
2. Windows update stuck on 99%
3. "C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.LOG" grew to 200GB.  The file had 200,000 of these entries:  Current tick count lower than last tick count. [HRESULT = 0x8007000d - ERROR_INVALID_DATA] 
4. The Event Logs shows: "Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x800706BE: 2017-12 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4054517)."

The solution:

I read the December 12, 2017—KB4054517 (OS Build 16299.125).  "When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a Knows Issues (1)."  The symptom reported in that KB:

Update installation may stop at 99% and may show elevated CPU or disk utilization if a device was reset using the Reset this PC functionality after installing KB4054022.

No kidding.

Here is an abbreviated version of the steps I took (from the KB article.) 

1. Download the appropriate version of KB4054022 for your device architecture from the Microsoft Update Catalog to c:\temp. Then run the commands in the steps below from the administrative command prompt.
2. Create a temp directory, expand the .msu file that you downloaded in step 1.
• mkdir c:\temp
• expand -f:* windows10.0-kb4054022-x64_da67baa74c09ad949d90823b25531731c3211184.msu c:\temp
3. End the existing Trusted Installer processes and install KB4054022 using the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool.
• taskkill /f /im tiworker.exe
• taskkill /f /im trustedinstaller.exe
• dism /online /add-package /packagepath:c:\temp\Windows10.0-KB4054022-x64.cab
4. Delete the CBS logs from the Windows Logs directory.
• del /f %windir%\logs\cbs\*.log

Three days later things seem to be back to "normal."
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(1) Adapted from the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas"