What do I do now

[Army867]

It said my drive had an error and it was going to scan for it, I let it run for a few hours and when I came back this popped up, what do I do? 

[VillaDanknight]

20 minutes ago, Army867 said:

It said my drive had an error and it was going to scan for it, I let it run for a few hours and when I came back this popped up, what do I do? 

Let it run and should boot fine

[VillaDanknight]

Just now, VillaDanknight said:

Let it run and should boot fine or restart and if it pops up again let it run but this does happen from time to time at least for me it does 

 

[Army867]

12 minutes ago, VillaDanknight said:

 

I let it run and it started repairing it again

[whispous]

How lnog did you let it run for

[VillaDanknight]

15 minutes ago, Army867 said:

I let it run and it started repairing it again

Sorry should have stated let it run through the whole fixing stages  process

[Army867]

Just now, VillaDanknight said:

Sorry should have stated let it run through the whole fixing stages  process

How do I do that?

[Army867]

5 minutes ago, whispous said:

How lnog did you let it run for

About 4 hours

[whispous]

Just now, Army867 said:

About 4 hours

Fair enough.

 

Do you need any data on this drive?

[Army867]

1 minute ago, whispous said:

Fair enough.

 

Do you need any data on this drive?

No not really

[whispous]

6 minutes ago, Army867 said:

No not really

I think something "free" to try would be to reinstall Windows from scratch.

You'll need a USB stick and another working computer to create the stick from. Done this before?

[Army867]

1 minute ago, whispous said:

I think something "free" to try would be to reinstall Windows from scratch.

You'll need a USB stick and another working computer to create the stick from. Done this before?

Wait can’t I just go into “troubleshooting” and just reinstall it?

[whispous]

10 minutes ago, Army867 said:

Wait can’t I just go into “troubleshooting” and just reinstall it?

Problem is, if the data is mashed, the installation data stored there will be too.

 

It's always best to install from a fresh image.

[Army867]

4 minutes ago, whispous said:

Problem is, if the data is mashed, the installation data stored there will be too.

 

It's always best to install from a fresh image.

Alright 

[Army867]

4 minutes ago, whispous said:

Problem is, if the data is mashed, the installation data stored there will be too.

 

It's always best to install from a fresh image.

I’ll get the flash drive 

[whispous]

10 minutes ago, Army867 said:

I’ll get the flash drive 

Now, there is a strong possibility that this drive is dying. You'd get more clues to this if this fresh windows installation fails or has issues quite quickly.

[Army867]

2 minutes ago, whispous said:

Now, there is a strong possibility that this drive is dying. You'd get more clues to this if this fresh windows installation fails or has issues quite quickly.

Alright, it makes sense, I have an ssd I can install windows on and that’s what it’s on right now

[VillaDanknight]

9 minutes ago, Army867 said:

Alright, it makes sense, I have an ssd I can install windows on and that’s what it’s on right now

Also if you have more than one drive make sure to have only the one drive you plan on using to install windows as sometimes windows will install a critical file on a different drive and if your using an SSD and a hdd for storage it will slow down performance if it does that 

[Army867]

1 minute ago, VillaDanknight said:

Also if you have more than one drive make sure to have only the one drive you plan on using to install windows as sometimes windows will install a critical file on a different drive and if your using an SSD and a hdd for storage it will slow down performance if it does that 

Do I just unplug the HDD?

[VillaDanknight]

3 minutes ago, Army867 said:

Do I just unplug the HDD?

Yeah just unplug the sata cable and if you can install windows as uefi if possible as it does allow a better support