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Windows 10 March updated messed up my installation.
Hello forum.
I am literally begging you for help. Today I came home to my computer displaying a warning in message center stating my drive had errors which I had to scan. I clicked it and Windows did absolutely nothing. So I performed the scan myself.
First time, I got a message stating scan could not be run. So I tried closing it and then everything froze up, my desktop went blank and nothing responded. I had to do a hard reset and restart only to find out Windows had decided to update my machine, I thought that would be the end of my problems.
Upon Windows completing the update after numerous restarts, I was still prompted to check my disk for errors, which ended up in the scan freezing saying ''24 minutes remaining'' for over an hour. Upon trying to cancel, it just froze up and when I tried to force a restart, I noticed I could no longer use my taskbar at all, the Start Menu won't open, I cannot click the sound icon, the notification center does not respond/expand anymore. etc...
I managed to restart and Windows starting checking my drive, during the check it froze at 43% for over 40 minutes and I had to restart once again. I did SFC /SCANNOW and there were corrupted files found, but not all were fixed. These issues are also not happening in my girlfriends profile in the same computer, she does not have any issues and is able to open start menu and gets all relevant notifications and use the taskbar to its fullest.
I am also not able to use a system restore point because there are system file corruptions and the error checking must be completed but it never will because it gets frozen at a 20 minute remaining mark.
Can someone please help me for the love of all that is good? I have no idea what else to do and restoring the installation is not an option, I do not have any backup drives and cannot afford reinstalling all the programs on this machine.
Thank you so much for your help.