Keep needing to reset windows

Firefox365 · March 21, 2019

So I have had my PC for about 2-3 years and I've always had Windows 10 Pro installed, but in the past 6 months or so I've had to do a PC reset 4 times and a clean install of Windows once. I just got done resetting my pc again for the 2nd time in just over a week. I'm really tired of it and I don't know what could possibly be so wrong. For the most part almost every time I get a windows update this happens. It won't boot so I turn it on and off a few times until I get to the trouble shooting screen. I attempt a startup repair and it fails almost instantly.. I have tried to the new feature to rollback windows to a previous version and that also fails instantly. Then I am left with no choice but to reset the PC.

Is there anything I can do to figure out what is going on? The best solution I have had in the past was to just pause all windows updates for as long as possible, but I can only do that for so long. This also happened recently when I tried to install VoiceMod and it asked me to restart my pc.

Thanks in advance!

dj_ripcord · March 21, 2019

Have you tried running a scan on your hard disk? Perhaps remove the drive from the PC and scan it with an external SATA dock. That is; assuming you have one. If not, see if you know anyone that does.

Usually Windows will see if the drive throws a SMART error, but maybe the drive doesn't know it's failing. I would check that point first. Then move on to RAM, BIOS, MB etc..

Firefox365 · March 21, 2019

1 minute ago, dj_ripcord said:

Have you tried running a scan on your hard disk? Perhaps remove the drive from the PC and scan it with an external SATA dock. That is; assuming you have one. If not, see if you know anyone that does.

Usually Windows will see if the drive throws a SMART error, but maybe the drive doesn't know it's failing. I would check that point first. Then move on to RAM, BIOS, MB etc..

Well I originally had windows installed on my SSD, but after the clean install I had to do. In order to not wipe my data I had to install in on my brand new NVMe drive. I would assume that would rule out the drive as the issue since this has happened on multiple drives.. I am not sure how I would go about checking my other components.