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Yesterday before I went to bed my PC was taking ages to shut down. So I forcibly held the power button (which I joked to someone that it felt like smothering my PC with a pillow)
Well I think I did.
Now when I got home and tried to boot it up, it goes to a black screen with a spinning circle saying 'Automatic repair' or something along those lines then it says it could take over an hour. It didn't ever finish and I googled it and people have waited over night with no results.
It got past this screen once or twice and I could reinstall windows and wipe all my data or keep data but the keep data wouldn't work.
I asked my friend who is a programmer and he said a few things to put in the command prompt which I could use. Nothing seemed to work. Other options were restore recovery image or restore point but i never made one.
I then tried using a live cd ubuntu to transfer files before reinstalling windows 10 but it won't show any files I need. I cannot access /Users when I mount it in ubuntu.
If anyone knows what to do I would be eternally grateful. I am at my wits end and I don't want to lose my sh*t again (data-wise or mentally). I cannot at this crucial point in my uni course.
I am sick and tired of things going wrong this year already, just when I need my PC at the last stretch of Uni Course.
Yesterday before I went to bed my PC was taking ages to shut down. So I forcibly held the power button (which I joked to someone that it felt like smothering my PC with a pillow)
Well I think I did.
Now when I got home and tried to boot it up, it goes to a black screen with a spinning circle saying 'Automatic repair' or something along those lines then it says it could take over an hour. It didn't ever finish and I googled it and people have waited over night with no results.
It got past this screen once or twice and I could reinstall windows and wipe all my data or keep data but the keep data wouldn't work.
I asked my friend who is a programmer and he said a few things to put in the command prompt which I could use. Nothing seemed to work. Other options were restore recovery image or restore point but i never made one.
I then tried using a live cd ubuntu to transfer files before reinstalling windows 10 but it won't show any files I need. I cannot access /Users when I mount it in ubuntu.
If anyone knows what to do I would be eternally grateful. I am at my wits end and I don't want to lose my sh*t again (data-wise or mentally). I cannot at this crucial point in my uni course.
I am sick and tired of things going wrong this year already, just when I need my PC at the last stretch of Uni Course.
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