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Problems with Startup Repair/Disk Consistency Windows 7
I went on holiday 1st March and didn't get back until 6th. My Lenovo PC was working fine the day I left. On my return, I switched it on and couldn't get into Windows (7). So I rebooted and it went into Startup Repair. It ran for two days straight. After that it started a disk consistency check. That took many hours, and once finished, the PC restarted... and went into disk consistency Check again. And again. And again...
Each time the Disk Consistency message showed, I tried cancelling it, but the computer just hung, so I had to reboot again.
I looked for help online and found this thread which described similar problems.
One of your disks need to be checked for consistency
I rebooted again but this time used F8 before the Disk Consistency message. I opened a Command Prompt (which strangely started with drive X). I switched to C and typed
fsutil c:
as described in that thread. It found no errors so I rebooted again. Disk Consistency showed up but this time when I cancelled, it eventually loaded Windows.
Logging in took an age - and the desktop was completely black for five minutes, except the cursor - but eventually the desktop appeared. Windows Explorer ran incredibly slowly. And clicking on applications had no effect. I was able to open some notepad files and move stuff to Recycle Bin but nothing else. So, I rebooted again.
This time I was prompted to use Startup Repair... so I'm back to square one.
Does anyone have any suggestions?