Windows on "Preparing Automatic Repair"

dalchina said:

Personally I'd
a. check the disk (you'd need ot boot your PC from a live boot disk or connect it to another PC) e.g. Crystal Diskinfo/Hard Disk Sentinel

If ok

b. Create a Macrium Reflect boot disk
Boot PC from that and use its FixBoot utility and see what it says.

If ok

c. you could try e.g. Option 6
Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

- try booting from e.g. a Win 10 install disk to Advanced Startup options and try using a System Restore point. You'll need to know your password.

Do you have a recent 3rd party disk image of at least all your Win 10 partitions?

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Of course there's the possibility of a hardware problem- so if your PC boots from a bootable disk and is stable, that gives you an initial basic level of confidence (but doesn't mean there isn't a hardware problem)

Thanks for the reply and suggestions @dalchina

It looks like it is my storage drive. It is mostly just storage but a few things point to it like my Outlook and a few programs.

My main "C" drive is a samsung 990 Pro NVMe and my storage/aux drive is a WD Blue SSD

I took the SSD out of the pc and things run great but I really need to try and recover files from it. But it is not letting me. When i connected it and try to do anything with it it freezes everything up

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The SSD is possessed . It hardly shows up now and in Disk management it comes and goes. I need to look into ways to recover if possible.

dalchina said:

Hi, it sounds as if you don't have a full backup- or are you referring to just recent items since your last backup?

You may be able to connect it as a USB disk and try to access it that way.. it's then independent of the internal cabling used, and shouldn't be able to stop your PC booting.
@jumanji is the most skilled at disk issues.

I am having no problem booting now. I hooked up the storage drive to an external adapter and it is no different , when i try to access it it freezes things up

dalchina said:

- i.e. connected via USB?

Again: Do you need to recover EVERYTHING or just a small amount of data?

What happens if you use Disk Management?

And see if Crystal Diskinfo (free) can give you a report on its SMART params.

No, I do not need to recover everything. just some recent files. I have a backup of most of it.
the drive hardly shows up in windows. it flashes in and out in disk management and is not showing up in crystal disk info

dalchina said:

Ok, please wait for jumanji. Be patient.

thanks. It does not seem to be totally dead. I can get it to show up in Windows but it takes forever to read it. then if i click on it it takes forever and does not open but i get an error : "F:/ is not accessible. A device which does not exist was specified"