Having slight trouble booting up

Hi, so a disk looks as if it's failing. I hope you have full backups - we repeatedly and strongly recommend disk imaging e.g. Macrium Reflect (free) + its boot disk and external storage for images (which also act as full backups). If you have such images, replacing your disk should be relatively trivial.

If some part of your disk is unreadable, you most likely will not be able to image it now.

You can confirm by using e.g. Crystal Diskinfo (free) - available as a portable program too. It gives a quick green/orange/red indication and SMART params.

Hi, I don't know exactly where your message is coming from.
Receiving S.M.A.R.T. status bad backup and replace error.

Your computer is trying to tell you 'Watch out, things are getting bad, act now or it will be too late'.

Put another way, he who does not back up and take precautions lives to regret it.

The longer you continue to press F1 and ignore the warning, the greater your risk of losing data. Permanently.

Windows offers File History as one backup technique: 3rd party backup programs abound.
Don't have any spare disks or network devices to back up to? Back up to the cloud. Onedrive. Google Drive. Any Drive...! (Requires ability to upload data reasonably fast).

Disk imaging is different:
Creating disk images lets you restore Windows and all your disks and partitions to a previous working state, quickly and probably without technical help.

You can recover from:
- a failed disk drive (restore to a new one)
- ransomware (which encrypts your disk)
- user error
- unrecoverable problems from failed updates to problem programs
- unbootable PC (hardware faults aside)

Images also act as a full backup- you can extract files too.

You can even use images to help you move more easily and quickly to a new PC.
Can be used with Laplink software to transfer your build automatically to another PC

Imaging can even help you sleep at night knowing you have a second chance.

Many here recommend Macrium Reflect (free) as a good robust solution and more reliable than some others. It’s
- more feature rich
- more flexible
- more reliable
than Windows Backup and Restore system images.

It's well supported with videos, help and a responsive forum.

There are other such programs, free/commercial, some with simpler interfaces, but Macrium R is one of the most robust and reliable.

How long does it take?
SSD+ USB3 - maybe 15 mins for the first system image, less thereafter
HDD + USB2 - maybe 40-50 mins
That’s with little personal data, few programs installed.
- of course, depends how much you have on C:
(You can and should image all your partitions and disks)

Once you've created your first image, keep it updated with e.g. differential imaging- which images just changes from the first image, more quickly, and creates a smaller image file.

You need a backup medium - say- twice as large as the total amount of data you are imaging to keep a reasonable number of differential images. This will vary dependent on the number of images you keep, so is only a rough practical guide.

Some comment that system restore isn't always reliable; if it works and solves the problem, great. But sometimes restores won't work or fail. And of course a restore point only covers a limited number of aspects of the system. That’s where disk imaging comes in.

You'll most likely need to replace your failing disk, so you could get a 1-2Tb or so as a backup disk - for me over USB3, updating my image of Windows takes about 12 mins- I'm using a SSD in my PC. Slower with a hard drive.

Make sure your Onedrive storage is adequate- I have 125Gb free, but use a 2Tb disk for my images.

Onedrive is provided with Windows as part of Win 10. But the available storage size will not be adequate for a full backup. Just use a search engine and find out more if you want to.

Easiest for you: buy an external hard disk, say 1-2Tb.