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I fired up a Windows 10 desktop that I haven't used in at least a year. It booted OK. Only problem I saw was the wireless network showed Connected, No Internet. I know my wireless Internet connection is good I thought I'd just reload the drivers. So in Device Manager I Uninstalled the wireless network adapter. On restart, I got STOP CODE NTFS FILE SYSTEM. The machine restarts, but continues to get this error and restarts. It continues to loop.

It's now in a scenario where when started it gets thru POST, the Windows logo shows, it says Preparing automatic repair and then the STOP CODE NTFS FILE SYSTEM comes up. It restarts and repeats.

I pulled the drive and connected it to another machine via SATA to USB adapter. The main partition shows as RAW. It's Disk 1 in the attached screen shot.

My question is where does the Windows logo and Preparing automatic repair come from? When it booted did it see that the main partition was RAW and then drop down to the Recovery partition? That's what I think is happening. Thoughts please.

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TonyDi said:
My question is where does the Windows logo and Preparing automatic repair come from? When it booted did it see that the main partition was RAW and then drop down to the Recovery partition? That's what I think is happening. Thoughts please.
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That's exactly what is happening. You need to repair the filesystem of that RAW partition. CHKDSK /F normally works. You can run that from the other computer in CMD as follows:

CHKDSK /F E:

where E: is the drive letter of the RAW partition.
 
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Check Disk will take a long time. If there are a lot of Bad Sectors, the drive can take overnight, and it may not fix the problem.
You can also download DiskGenius in my signature, select the disk go up to the toolbar to Disk/View SMART Information. This will give you a snapshot of the drive, if it is anything less then Good, the drive is failing and needs to be replaced. You can also go to View or Repair Bad Sectors/Start Verify. This is similar to Check Disk and will take a long time, but it will show you a map of the Bad Sectors. If there are more then one or two, there is no need to finish the test, the drive needs to be replaced.
 
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Thanks Stancestans, That's what I thought what was happening.

Thanks Spunk.funk - I've added Disk Genius to my toolbox. I'm not worried about this hard drive. I did run it thru chkdsk. It took about 3 hours. The machine is running off the drive but I don't trust it. So I'll install a new drive, probably an SSD now that the prices are reasonable.
 
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If Check Disk finished in 3 hours, then it probably doesn't have any Bad Sectors, Running View SMART Info in DiskGenius, or any HDD Diagnostic app, will take a few minutes to check and gather info on the drive.
You will notice a significant performance boost if you upgrade to an SSD.
 
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Wikipedia > S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

Known ATA S.M.A.R.T. attributes

Reallocated Sectors Count

ID 0x05 - Reallocated Sectors Count

Critical - Count of reallocated sectors

The raw value represents a count of the bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate. This value is primarily used as a metric of the life expectancy of the drive; a drive which has had any reallocations at all is significantly more likely to fail in the immediate months.​

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