First of all, sorry about the long post- please read it all.
So to start with, I was getting these strange occurrences where when I put my PC to sleep, it would not wake up by any of the usual means, eg. moving/clicking the mouse, pressing keys on the keyboard. The only way to turn it on would be to hard reset it. (holding down the power button, in my case.) So I held down the button, and sure enough, my fans stopped spinning for a brief moment then started again. I got my motherboard splash screen, and then nothing. Just a black screen for about a minute, until eventually i managed to get into windows. Odd. First thing I notice is a popup from Steam saying my credentials had changes. I typed in my usual username and password, and everything was fine. so then I go into chrome- some sort of error where my bookmarks have all disappeared, along with my all of my preferences and extensions. By this point I am convinced it is my hard drive failing so I go to my 'search windows' bar, and nothing comes up when I type in 'PC' to try and find the backup page. It says something was turned off, but gives me no option to turn anything back on. I then get multiple errors saying an app malfunctioned and some defaults had been reset. I then grab my portable HDD, ready to backup everything- I also have no Idea which drive, if any, has malfunctioned. I open task manager, and I get the worst error of them all: your drive has malfunctioned and needs to restart to be repaired.Obviously, I restart my PC and it proceeds to repair every drive that is plugged in, including my USB. I go into windows, and some more errors about default apps. And that's it so far. What is going on?
PS: I typed into cmd.exe the following:
wmic
diskdrive get status
which returned the following:
OK
OK
OK
So to start with, I was getting these strange occurrences where when I put my PC to sleep, it would not wake up by any of the usual means, eg. moving/clicking the mouse, pressing keys on the keyboard. The only way to turn it on would be to hard reset it. (holding down the power button, in my case.) So I held down the button, and sure enough, my fans stopped spinning for a brief moment then started again. I got my motherboard splash screen, and then nothing. Just a black screen for about a minute, until eventually i managed to get into windows. Odd. First thing I notice is a popup from Steam saying my credentials had changes. I typed in my usual username and password, and everything was fine. so then I go into chrome- some sort of error where my bookmarks have all disappeared, along with my all of my preferences and extensions. By this point I am convinced it is my hard drive failing so I go to my 'search windows' bar, and nothing comes up when I type in 'PC' to try and find the backup page. It says something was turned off, but gives me no option to turn anything back on. I then get multiple errors saying an app malfunctioned and some defaults had been reset. I then grab my portable HDD, ready to backup everything- I also have no Idea which drive, if any, has malfunctioned. I open task manager, and I get the worst error of them all: your drive has malfunctioned and needs to restart to be repaired.Obviously, I restart my PC and it proceeds to repair every drive that is plugged in, including my USB. I go into windows, and some more errors about default apps. And that's it so far. What is going on?
PS: I typed into cmd.exe the following:
wmic
diskdrive get status
which returned the following:
OK
OK
OK
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