"Repairing disk error" nightmare

Garrison78

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Simply every time i turn on my desktop, it says preparing automatic repair then diagnosing your pc i let it do that for about 7-9 hours. It finally finished but it brought me to a windows screen saying automatic repair your pc did not start correctly and tells me to restart or go to advanced options. I tried all the options even "reset this pc". It told me there was aa problem resetting my pc. No changes were made. I dont know what else to do i dont want to lose my files. If it helps i remember every once and a while turning my computer off at night but instead of turning off it would stay on for a few hours for reasons il never know. So i would always just hold the power button off so it would turn off. I think that may the reason this problem is appearing. Maybe i did it in the middle of a windows update.
I've looked up the problem ive been having in so many different ways but coming up with solutions that dont work for me.

I appreciate any help you may have.
 

RolandJS

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I hope you have current restorable full image backups of your OS and Data partitions on external media. I'm coming across as a newbie DR person who assumes the worst is coming of an internal HD until proven otherwise -- if you have no recent backups, usb or dvd boot any backup / restore / clone program and either make a one-pass clone of your HD or make one-pass sector by sector full images of your partitions onto external media. Then, you come to a fork in the road, there are several paths of trouble-shooting you can take.
 

Garrison78

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I do not have any recent backups, so i should download any backup software on another computer to a usb and run it on the computer with the problem then move all the files to a new hard drive? And the fork in the road would be what do i do with the hard drive that has a problem? How do i find out what is wrong witht the hard drive?
 

Garrison78

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Im having a hard time finding the backup software, all of them assume i can access my computer. Theres this one site telling me to buy and external hard disk enclosure do you think that would work for me or is worth it?
 

RolandJS

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Not knowing your financials, I recommend either free version AOMEI Backupper, Macrium Reflect or EaseUS ToDo -- any one of those freebies can create full images onto any external media of your choosing: DVDs, USB sticks, hard-drives -- I recommend a nice sized usb external platter-driven hard-drive, at least one.