Windows 10 Won't Start so I "chkdsk" now OMG

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When I first turned to Mic. Sup. about my problem and read several with simular problems accept mine was far worst. I couldn't even get past my password to sign in. It dragged and ran so slow. It was several minutes in between each letter of my password. Or it would just freeze there at the sign in screen. Had no way to shut it down accept for a hard shut down with the power button. It was running fine before with no sign of any problem. I went to start it up. It struggled a little at first. I would get a window saying Windows needed to gather some information and will need to restart. Or something to that effect. I was on for just seconds and saw it only twice cause it got worse from there.

I went with the suggestion to F11 on start up and at the Command prompt ran chkdsk c: /r /x. What I got was over 430,000 corrupted files with an attempt to fix each one. But for each one there was an error occurred c0000185 with "The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters." All 430,000 files. That took several hours. But now Its at stage 5 of the process "Looking for bad free clusters" and froze at that point and has not gone any further. I read someone had the same problem at stage 5 and he had to do a hard shut down and completely caused himself far worst problems. I'm leaving it where its at and hoping someone will help me soon.

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Hi Robert,

Usually, Error code 0XC1900101 happens when a security application blocks the installation of an update. These security applications are but is not limited to anti-virus softwares, proxy applications, and 3rd party firewalls. A driver of an unnecessary hardware could also prevent the installation of an update. To troubleshoot this issue, we recommend disabling all your security applications temporarily. Removing all unnecessary hardwares before updating is also required. As much as possible, only connect the keyboard and mouse on your PC. After meeting all these conditions, kindly try updating your PC again.

Let us know how things go.

Regards.

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I don't want to give up on this, I at least want to see the system reach a working state.

My recommendation to users going forward is not to pounce on every new Windows 10 Feature Update that is released. If your system has been working just fine with the current version, wait it out a while or skip it all together. If there is some specific feature in the update you want, then thats an exception, but these feature updates are becoming more difficult to install on older devices; and it sometimes makes you wonder if the inconvenience is worth the hassle just to keep doing the same thing.

If you look at whats considered the flagship features of Windows 10 1709, they are aimed at newer generation devices like the new Surface Book 2. Otherwise welcome features like Story Remix, which you have to upgrade to 1709 to get, could be supplanted with third party alternatives.

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2017-11-16T14:35:57+00:00

You can perform a direct clean install in that case since your files are backed up.

When you upgraded from a previous version of Windows or receive a new computer preinstalled with Windows 10, what happened is the hardware (your PC) will get a digital entitlement, where a unique signature of the computer will be stored on Microsoft Activation Servers. The Windows 7 or Windows 8 genuine license you were previously running will be exchanged for a diagnostics key.

Anytime you need to reinstall Windows 10 on that machine, just proceed to reinstall Windows 10. It will automatically reactivate. You will prompted to enter a product key a couple times through the installation, click I don't have a key and Do this later.

There is no need to know or get a new key, but if you have issues with Digital Licensing or the Activation Troubleshooter, you can utilize an existing Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 product key you already own to reactivate if necessary. or use the reset function in Windows 10.
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2017-11-16T14:21:19+00:00

Wow Andre thanks for the loads of info. So your suggesting a hard shut down from here and in hopes that I don't continue with the same problem of not getting any further than signing in. And, correct me if I'm wrong, that would mean a reset at that point being the only option right? If I'm not given the option to do a custom reset my files would not be an issue. I keep all my files backed up anyways. What would be an issue is loosing my up-graded Windows 10. I already have 8.1 on this other Lap Top. $120 dollars to replace 10....outch! Andre thank you for your time on this. I really do appreciate this.
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Anonymous

2017-11-16T13:45:46+00:00

Sounds likes the drive might either be corrupt or about to fail. Since its in an inoperable state, I would try performing a custom install or reset then backup your files.

Option 1:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki...

Option 2:

Boot into recovery environment:

Click Troubleshoot

Click Reset this PC

Click Keep my files

Choose your account

Enter your password

Click Continue

Click Reset

If you are able to perform a custom install successfully then recover your files from Windows.old

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wik...

Back them up:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

You can then perform a direct clean install:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki...
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