- Apr 13, 2014
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I have two hard drives in my computer, a 64GB ADATA SSD that I use as a boot drive and program drive, and a 1.5TB WD that I use for general storage (documents, pictures, videos, etc).
Last night I shut down my computer and when I turned it on this morning I noticed that my login was incredibly slow. After entering my password the 'Welcome' text did not display for about two minutes. When it did display, it took a few more minutes to get past it. When that happened I was presented with a black screen and only my mouse pointer. I could press Ctrl + Alt + Del but clicking anything got me know where (it would lock up and I'd have to reboot).
I managed to do the Shift + Restart trick to get myself into safe mode but I was not able to fix the problem. Safe Mode looked like my computer normally does but it was incredibly slow and every program (including Windows Explorer and Task Manager) would lock up and crash, similar to the Ctrl + Alt + Del menu on normal boot.
I then used another Windows 8 computer I own to create a recovery USB stick. I tried performing a refresh but I could not because the drive was "locked". I Googled around to find a fix for the locking issue and had to use the stick's command prompt to enter in some commands. None of the commands resolved the locking issue but I did discover that the storage drive was being mounted as C and the boot drive as D. This is the opposite of what they normally are. The storage drive also had some errors that chkdisk found but it was unable to fix them (it locked up and froze completely around the 68% mark).
I then unplugged the storage drive and tried booting. Windows 8 logged in fast and my computer was like it was last night, except for not having the storage drive. I would like to know how I can fix this because I absolutely need that drive working. I can provide any information that is needed, thank you.
Last night I shut down my computer and when I turned it on this morning I noticed that my login was incredibly slow. After entering my password the 'Welcome' text did not display for about two minutes. When it did display, it took a few more minutes to get past it. When that happened I was presented with a black screen and only my mouse pointer. I could press Ctrl + Alt + Del but clicking anything got me know where (it would lock up and I'd have to reboot).
I managed to do the Shift + Restart trick to get myself into safe mode but I was not able to fix the problem. Safe Mode looked like my computer normally does but it was incredibly slow and every program (including Windows Explorer and Task Manager) would lock up and crash, similar to the Ctrl + Alt + Del menu on normal boot.
I then used another Windows 8 computer I own to create a recovery USB stick. I tried performing a refresh but I could not because the drive was "locked". I Googled around to find a fix for the locking issue and had to use the stick's command prompt to enter in some commands. None of the commands resolved the locking issue but I did discover that the storage drive was being mounted as C and the boot drive as D. This is the opposite of what they normally are. The storage drive also had some errors that chkdisk found but it was unable to fix them (it locked up and froze completely around the 68% mark).
I then unplugged the storage drive and tried booting. Windows 8 logged in fast and my computer was like it was last night, except for not having the storage drive. I would like to know how I can fix this because I absolutely need that drive working. I can provide any information that is needed, thank you.
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