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Issues with session startup and disks

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  • Steam
  • Windows 8
October 10, 2014 2:21:54 PM

Hi. A few moments ago wanted to install 3DMarker to test some performance, so went to steam and downloaded it. But at the part of "assigning disk space for the game" steam frozen at the point of no responding program. So I had to manually shut down the program at the task manager. Nu the disk was still in use. My system have two HDD (not in RAID), one of 160GB for windows and light simple programs like audacity, Firefox, etc, and a 1TB disk for music, important and heavy programs and games. Of course steam is installed on second drive. So, after seeing that the disk was still in usage, I shutted down the PC by normal way (no pullin the cord or so), but after shutting down everything, the PC wasn't getting off. No image on screen, but the system was still on, so I had to pul of the cable. Now I have the problem of when I start the PC, the spinning circle screen takes a LOT of time, and after that the lock screen, but when I enter my password, it doesn't show the spinning circle and "starting", instead gets me back to the lock screen, like if was turned on.

P.S: Trying to figure out all this mess I ran the PC with Ubuntu which I had installed in on a USB drive to see if I could see something about the drives. Nautilus send me a error message of unable to mount the drive cuz it has bad state because it had a session hibernated. But I think that is caused by the W8 hybrid mode of shutting down.

UPDATE: While I was writing this from my smartphone I shutted down the computer in the lock screen, and let it work. Now works fine (i'm writing on it), but the 1TB HDD in My pc shows like unrecognized (not showing the usage bar and instead displaying the custom label just says "disk drive"), but in task manager still is using it at 100%, but no data read/writing.

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