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Scanning and repairing drive (C:) ...
Searched forums about this screen. Long story short, I ran into issues with my laptop (Dells XPS 9530) and reinstalled Windows, keeping all my files. That got my computer up and running again after hours of being unsuccessful. I reinstalled a bunch of programs and powered down.
The next time that I started up, I got the "Scanning and repairing drive" screen.
In every message I saw online, people noted a percentage on progress. However, my screen does not have a percentage. It just has an elipsis: …
I've allowed this to continue for almost two full days.
What is going on? Should I interrupt this process with a hard reset on the power button?