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Originally Posted by crayzkirk
My computer did that; the Automatic Repair. Never recovered. You can download and burn a copy of the latest version of Windows 10 and boot from it. It will give you options to check the drive, etc. I had a few adult beverages and ended up losing patience with the whole process; it had been running for 16 hours and I said enuf. Hopefully, you have everything backed up... If not and the drive has bad sectors, just start from scratch with a new drive, get an external drive enclosure and copy the data from it once you have Windows up and running again.
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Yep.
I wouldn't even boot it again at that point as you risk increasing the errors on the hard drive, making data less recoverable.
Slap a new hard drive in it, reinstall Windows, and then put the old drive in an enclosure and pull your data off of it.