stuck at splash screen/scanning and repairing drive (E:) 0%

[Mya_r]

I was having some issues with a non-OS hdd, and ran chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r. I turned my PC off, turned it on, installed a new antivirus, and during the reboot for that my PC has been stuck at the windows 10 splash screen with a message saying "Scanning and repairing drive (E: 0% complete" for about 20 min, I got frustrated, rebooted, and have been stuck on the same screen for about 3 hours now. E was the faulty drive (according to chkdsk /f some of the indexes were wrong - I think that's what it said anyway).

What should I do about this, I'd like to get onto my PC, and this a data drive.

 

[mazboy]

Take the non-OS drive out and see if the computer boots. If it doesn't you're going to have to do some OS repair. Do you have a recovery disk/USB stick? Why not? The next step is to download Win10 and put in onto a bootable USB stick (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

and

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-usb-bootable-media-uefi-support), boot into the USB stick and try to repair the HDD via the utilities on the USB stick. Beyond that, you're looking at a clean OS re-install.

BTW, the included, integrated Windows Defender anti-virus program works fine, and experience has shown that it is both hard to turn completely off and it tends to conflict with other anti-virus software. That might have been what started the problem.