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>> No. 26066 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 12:09 pm
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Hi lads,
As of a few days ago my PC will startup but won't get to the login screen, it'll then restart and get to the loading screen then say scanning disk and then repair, 100% this takes less than a few seconds. After this it takes me to the login screen and everything is fine.
Is one of my HDD's shitting the bed? Something gone wrong in BIOS?
I'm using Win10 if it helps. I've tried googling but since the string search has common phrases I haven't found my problem.

A side note, yesterday I switched my PC off after use, took a shower then came back and switched it back on, this time it booted fine but this morning the "problem" came back. It's not stopping me from using my PC though, but it's obviously not supposed to do that either.

Cheers.
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>> No. 26070 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 2:24 pm
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How are you turning it off? Are you allowing it to close all its programs before it turns itself off, or are you just yanking the plug from the wall?
>> No. 26071 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 3:11 pm
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>>26070
Shutting it down, I close everything before doing so since I know it can mess up a shut down.
Also had no power cuts, otherwise the clocks in the house would need resetting.
>> No. 26072 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 4:18 pm
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>>26071

The disk check function usually starts up after an unexpected shut down. Sometimes you can get infected with malware which refuses to close properly before shut down, and it's possible that malware's inability to properly close, rather than its needing to be automatically force closed, is being treated by windows as an improper shut down, promoting a disk check.

That's one possibility. I don't know anything about Windows 10, but that sort of thing is common with Windows.
>> No. 26073 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 4:29 pm
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If windows programs are running I wouldn't have thought it's a problem with the BIOS, but I don't really know what I'm talking about and am only replying to post my own problem.

I've managed to lock myself out of my windows 7 machine with a poorly managed password change. I've found this program, NTpasswd (http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd), that looks like it'll help but I'm having trouble creating a bootable USB with it. The helpfile says to 'install the bootloader' and gives this command:

j:\syslinux.exe -ma j:

Does this look like the command for a specific operating system? I'm trying to use it with Lubuntu, which isn't working, and am wondering if I use a friends windows machine it might work (different commands and all that).

I'm not too fussed about losing my computer; taking apart the components and learning how to make a new one is pretty fun. I'd just like to recover a few files and websaves I'd made.

Live and learn, make backups often.
>> No. 26074 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 4:54 pm
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>>26073
I did that years ago and got by just using the windows installation disc.

I think this is basically how I resolved it:

https://www.howtogeek.com/96630/how-to-reset-your-forgotten-windows-password-the-easy-way/
>> No. 26076 Anonymous
19th August 2017
Saturday 5:38 pm
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>>26074
Thats great, thank you. I just hope the PC will boot from USB; it seemed to have problems booting from disk, even when altering the BIOS, when I tried to re-install the OS.

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