Help! Repairing Windows 10 Hard drive on another Computer

[smashbros379ful]

I have a family member who's windows 10 (I think) is corrupted and broken. Every time it boots up and logged in, the computer blue screens.

Although the more reasonable solution is updating drivers, in case that fails and it truly is the OS, then I want to know if i can somehow repair a Hard drive with Windows 10 with my Windows 10 computer.

In short, i will install a windows 10 filled Hard Drive on my computer.

I have tried to repair with the installed windows 10 repair kit. However that has not worked.

 

[Saga Lout]

Maybe, if they go into Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer to see if it tells them anything that might point you to a solution.

Have they run Checkdisk on the hard disk. From the Command Prompt use the syntax
chkdsk c: /r
so the /r switch can fix anything it finds.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there smashbros379ful,

I would agree with Saga Lout. Running chkdsk is a good idea.

Apart from that, it would be nice to test the drive in order to make sure it is in a healthy state. You can do so with either a brand specific testing tool or with some of these: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
Observe the SMART report and look for some abnormal values.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[DannyLM]

When you run CHKDSK, I recommend doing:
CHKDSK /f /r /x [drive letter]:

This will also attempt to fix bad sectors that it finds.

Try backing up the data before you do this. CHKDSKs may sometimes be the last straw that kills a barely breathing drive.