I'm thinking of getting separate drives so I can maintain them separately. However, I'm unsure if merely copying partition(as opposed to the entire disk with partition tables etc) contents would be...

Yeah I agree. Its a 2tb drive partitioned into the windows partition and another storage partition (C and D respectively).

If I get 2 new drives to replace it, would it be possible to copy each...

I found some time to do a chkdsk. Instead of running it through boot, I decided to do it through the bootable rescue disk. 12 Hours in, I'm at stage 5 - I think. There's some issue with the printing....

I don't doubt that there are indeed issues with my disk. Just that I thought chkdsk would have worked faster and after 6 hours I assumed it had hit a dead end. But whatever the issues are, they...

Ah, I assumed that windows 10 had scheduled a chkdsk without an /f flag and might not fix the errors. When I wanted to go change that, I found myself unable to boot into windows 10 at all because the...

Thank you! That is exactly what I needed.

For anyone else that encounters a similar issue, here's how I solved it:

Download the bootable rescue disk mentioned and use a tool such as Rufus to...

Hi, so I recently upgraded to windows 10 from windows 7 and it was working fine for a week. However a few hours ago, the system prompted me to restart to scan disk for errors. I restart, windows does...