Computer not Starting up. Disk at 100%

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CrusadingKnight

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Background: Alright to begin with my computer has been having some issues with my Hdd for quite a while. It would previously allocate nearly all my disk usage to one random program or another (nothing specific, it might allocate 80% to task manager, google chrome, steam, whatever) for no reason what so ever (even if no program were open and I haven't clicked on anything in 5 mins) and the disk would run up to 97-100%. Although this occured once I specifically clicked on a program or minimized and maximized the window again it usually straightened out to ~20-30%. Other than the fact task manager said my disk usage was sometimes nearly maxed out and some slight slowness of the computer during this period there wasn't much wrong. Even so I tried to straighten it out and ran some disk check ups (which said everything was fine) and tried disabling "Windows Search" and "Superfetch," the problem remained however, and I ended up just ignoring it.

Now: Everything was fine until just two days ago and my computer wouldn't boot up. When I try to boot up my computer the Asus screen says "Preparing Automatic Repair" at the bottom and my computer case disk activity light is solid (meaning disk usage is ~100%) I tried letting the computer sit for ~30 minutes but after about 10 seconds of displaying the "Preparing Automatic Repair" the screen just goes completely black and nothing else happened.

Question: So my question is how should I go about trying to solve this issue. If you need any info like computer specs, just let me know. Also I did change some computer parts on my computer AND updated to Win 10 from Win 8.1 around the time arose. (the issues i stated in "Background" pararaph) If you need to know any of those changes let me know also and I will provide all the details I can. Also if this topic needs to be moved to another catergory let me know.
 
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It looks like your system is still able to post. That's good.

What's bad is that it looks to me that your HDD is dying/dead.

What you can do.

plug in your hdd and restart your pc. one the power is on, click your keyboard del key like crazy until BIOS/UEFI shows up. look at SATA info and see if UEFI see your disk (it may say no disk or something like SATA1 SAMSUNGxxxxj or something similar)

If your UEFI can see the disk, then find another computer (one that you have or a friend's and family's) and plug it in (sata cable and power to mobo and disk). Boot up the system and you should see it in windows. open the disk and copy everything valuable from your disk to a)their hard drive or b)your portable USB drive)

Once you have...
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Darthutos

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A couple of questions

Do you have a SSD and HDD set up? boot with SSD and HDD storage? If so, unplug HDD and see if the computer boots up.

If you only have one drive, unplug and see if your computer boot? It won't go to windows, but does it post then?

Do you remember how many GB or MB your problem HDD have free? Do you remember if you open up my computer icon any of the drives have red lines underneath their name in the icon?

before the problem started (100 percent usage for disks) did you install any programs or download anything went to deceptive websites?

Did you have third party antivirus installed?

 
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CrusadingKnight

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I have only a HDD to my knowledge however in the storage I know there was like a "Window C: drive" or something with some storage on it. I'm not sure if that is a built in ssd to my computer's motherboard but I highly doubt it. (I know for a fact there is not a seperate physical ssd, only a seperate physical hdd.)

When I unplugged my hdd and tried to boot up the computer it stated "The current BIOS setting does not fully support the boot device." It then says to go to BIOS then "Advanced>Boot>CSM Parameters, and adjust the CSM (Compatability Support Module) setting to enable to boot device." Just let me know if you actually want me to do this. (also I only unplugged the cord from the back of the hdd and not the motherboard, let me know if I also need to unplug it from the motherboard [it's a bit hard to get to with my graphics card])

My HDD has plenty of extra space, I'm not sure exact numbers but it is over 300GB free room undoubtedly

As I stated I swapped some parts and upgraded to Windows 10. As far as programs go I have downloaded a few programs however I'm nearly certain everything has been safe and I did run a antivirus scan about 7 days ago (and I haven't downloaded any new programs since then)

Yes, I have Avast installed



 
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Darthutos

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It looks like your system is still able to post. That's good.

What's bad is that it looks to me that your HDD is dying/dead.

What you can do.

plug in your hdd and restart your pc. one the power is on, click your keyboard del key like crazy until BIOS/UEFI shows up. look at SATA info and see if UEFI see your disk (it may say no disk or something like SATA1 SAMSUNGxxxxj or something similar)

If your UEFI can see the disk, then find another computer (one that you have or a friend's and family's) and plug it in (sata cable and power to mobo and disk). Boot up the system and you should see it in windows. open the disk and copy everything valuable from your disk to a)their hard drive or b)your portable USB drive)

Once you have everything you wanted backed up. Then turn off their pc and unplug your hdd from it. Now you can trash the bad hdd.

TL;DR Your Hard drive is dying and you should find a way to back up data. Trash the hdd immediately after.
 
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CrusadingKnight

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Well, that stinks lol. I'm suprised it's went bad after only a few years old, then again it's a part I carried over from a pre-built. Anyways one more question, is a hdd to usb adapter an option for transferring data? I ask this because the only other computer at my house is a laptop.
 
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