Server 2012 r2 only boots to command prompt

Hello All, I have been trying to get SharePoint 2013 Foundation on a fresh server. (This is not a SharePoint question) Server 2012 R2 was working fine. However problems getting all the prerequisites installed and configured properly. When I was making
changes I was required to restart server. When I did I was able to get to the login screen. Then login seemed to work except that all I was able to get was command prompt after login. I am able to run SCONFIG. However the "restore gui" selection
is missing. Also powershell.exe will not run stating it is an unknown command. I checked through folders and those folders appear to be missing. At this point I have no idea how to much of anything. I was able to download and install updates. Ha thanks MS.
Otherwise any help is greatly appreciated.

The same scenario described occurred here: ServerManager would not launch, PowerShell was missing from the expected location in the system drive, explorer.exe was missing, and msconfig.exe was missing, etc.
Interestingly enough, the server seemed intact in other ways, such as the administrative share worked (\\servername\c$), and it would reboot normally enough, but to a black screen with a command prompt.
A small syntactical correct to step 5. above should be noted: '/wimfile'... not '/winfile'
dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:d:\sources\install.wim
Other than that, R.Derickson, the fix worked to bring back the expected graphical state.
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