Error msg on boot

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Can any1 tell me what this means and how to fix it? I can't upload an image but it is titled American Megatrendz. And it says SATA6G_1 : TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 S.M.A.R.T STATUS BAD, BACKUP AND REPLACE

[ZED]

Can any1 tell me what this means and how to fix it? I can't upload an image but it is titled American Megatrendz. And it says SATA6G_1 : TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 S.M.A.R.T STATUS BAD, BACKUP AND REPLACE

S.M.A.R.T STATUS is the utility that monitors the health of the drive. Some drives (especially SSD) might not like this utility. You may disable it within your BIOS. However, since the drive it is referring to is an HDD it is indicating that the drive might be faulty. Boot into Windows and run chkdisk through Command Prompt.

Run Command Prompt as administrator and run this command:
chkdsk C: /f /r /x

replace the drive letter if that Toshiba drive is not C drive.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Thank you I will give this a try and post the outcome.

[MightyDWC]

Good luck with this. I got a new tower for Christmas and all I did was transplant my current build from the old one to the new one and when I booted up I kept getting the msg to insert bootable media and restart

Only thing I did out of the ordinary was pull my CPU out to clean the thermal grease off it to put on my new AIO. I tried for 2 hours with numerous variations. Bios was reading the drive my windows was on, it just wouldn't boot from it. I ended up having to format and reinstall. Worked perfect after new install.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

I wish i knew how long this takes lol. I got into Windows and I'm running the cmd prompt. Once it's done I will run it on my other HD that holds my OS files. I should have an update for you guys by, oh... next week? Lol

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Day two of chkdsk: I fear I have lost my way in the unforgiving wilderness. My paranoia drives me to imagine rouge bit surrounding me camp at night, biding there time as they lay in wait for me to make a mistake and drop my vigilance. I fear I may never find the end to this land. Oh how I long for my wife and children, knowing even now that I may miss my daughters first birthday or even worse may never see them again. I long to be back on the battlefields of 1914. I see movement... i must end this entry here. The bits are on the prowl...

[ZED]

Day two of chkdsk: I fear I have lost my way in the unforgiving wilderness. My paranoia drives me to imagine rouge bit surrounding me camp at night, biding there time as they lay in wait for me to make a mistake and drop my vigilance. I fear I may never find the end to this land. Oh how I long for my wife and children, knowing even now that I may miss my daughters first birthday or even worse may never see them again. I long to be back on the battlefields of 1914. I see movement... i must end this entry here. The bits are on the prowl...

That should not take that long. What it does it checks disk for bad sectors and does apply fix if there are any. Sounds like indeed your Toshiba drive is dying and time to do backups and get a new drive.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

How do I safely end the repair process

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Also it's step 4, check for bad clusters in user file data, that is taking 2 days so far

[ZED]

Also it's step 4, check for bad clusters in user file data, that is taking 2 days so far

Woah, that should take like a few minutes, tops 1h if the drive is really slow. Something is really not right with that drive.

[ZED]

How do I safely end the repair process

Try Ctrl+C

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Thank you

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Well my system seems to have shut itself off so... yeah... once I turn it back on and check my os hard drive as well I will let you know the outcome

[AOD_DukeCLR]

My son had a similar issue with his PC, as a youngster he dod't maintain it very well. After many repair attempts I just wiped the entire thing and started over, if I had done that at first I would have saved a lot of time.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

One last question I'm going to format my whole system any way do to a possible rootkrootkit, is there a way to see my Windows product key just in case things get weird when I do my reset?

[ZED]

One last question I'm going to format my whole system any way do to a possible rootkrootkit, is there a way to see my Windows product key just in case things get weird when I do my reset?

Yes. Open Command Prompt and run:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Or open PowerShell and run:
powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey"

[MOLOMOSK]

if you bought your PC from a store or OEM the windows key should be on the tower itself. Additionally, if you do a fresh install of win10 on a machine that was OEM with win 10 it should find the Key automatically. But More over.. taking days to complete a check disk is not natural I would be looking at purchasing a new SSD.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

It is a standard HD but I am looking to replace it.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Ok guys i fucked up again. I did a defrag and repair from wwithin the hd's properties and now im stuck in a boot loop because the system cannot repair the drive. Ugh contimplating changing my name to full milhouse.

[AOD_afluffybunni]

Just for closure on this thread i have decided to take out my hd and use another computer to save my important files. Then im going to get a new hd and start my computer fresh. Thank you for all the help amd hopefully one day i can return the favor.