Thank you, I appreciate it. That was the issue... don't drink and compute, guys.. makes you forget basic stuff.

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I changed the Download folder location from my OS Drive (C:\) to my (F:\) drive. However, even after making this change, items are still being downloaded into the C drive, and cannot...

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SMART gave a warning today practically telling me to back up my stuff, my HDD is going down soon. I just ordered a 500GB SSD (same size as my OS HDD) which will come in on Friday,...

I appreciate the clarification.

Could you elaborate on why some programs and utilities have an option to ''fix'' a bad sector? Does it just make the system ignore it to avoid writing data to it?

Thanks, let me give you a little insight as to why I believe these are soft bad sectors. The latest Microsoft W10 updated destroyed my installation to such an extent that I would get HDD lockups, HDD...

Hello Guys, I know this sounds like a hardware question, but I couldn't find the Ten Forums version of the Seven Forums ''Seagate for Dos, how to use'' anywhere after a search.

If I may.. does...

It is not just you. The update did the same to me, not only that, it corrupted my profile and I had to do an upgrade reinstall of Windows 10. Worst update I have seen from all windows versions I've...

Just to confirm doing the upgrade did work after the first restart, i got my functionality back.

The problem goes away, this is not present in the other account, however, Installed programs cannot be copied and must be reinstalled. I cant afford that right now.

You are absolutely right. This update completely destroyed my Windows 10 installation. Unfortunately, I will have to do an upgrade install to try and fix it.

It started just like yours. Except in...

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I am facing a corrupted user profile which does not allow me to open any of the Windows Icons in my task bar (Start menu, notifications, volume, network do not response to left click)...

Thanks! As long as the in place upgrade reinstall also fixes profile issues. It's much better than spending two days reconfiguring software. :S

Because I know the new profile will work, but I currenlty do not have the time to reinstall every single piece of software in that user profile. As far as I know, the only process which is able to...

Okay, I left it running overnight and woke up to a message stating Windows could not start properly last time and I had to restart. I selected the option to restart and got a message stating disc...

Is this the new march update? My installation also got affected, got noticed of disk errors and my taskbar is useless. No start menu or notification center.

Thanks. I m running the chkdsk on startup but this time it got stuck on 12% instead of 42% but the circle is still spinning. One huge difference i noticed is that my hard drive stopped being at 100%...

Ah okay. I was going through the in place upgrade through Get Windows 10 as it was much simpler than creating a bootable drive.

Thank you, could you help me with information on what sort of information must be backed up in a User Account or would be lost if I were to delete it?

Okay, I will give that a shot. The Drive I have the OS installed in is 500GB, but you do have a point, the dots were spinning all the time, I just assume it was taking an excessive amount of time.
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No. I use the in built disk checking tool (Go to My Computer -> right click HDD -> properties -> tools -> check disk for errors. After checking for errors, I get back a result prompting me...

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I am able to check for errors just fine. It's not checking for errors when the processes freezes. It's when restarting to fix the errors that the process gets stuck at 40 something %...

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Am I correct when thinking this process will only modify my windows installation and settings/registry while leaving my files and programs left as...

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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...

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I understand the title seems like a recurring question. I just got off a chat session with MSFT Support after asking about W10 upgrade reactivation when a major hardware change had...