Windows 10: C: Drive Recovery Deep Scan won't stop

About 9 months ago I did some spring cleaning on my C drive and accidentally deleted files I wanted to keep. I am also learning to use the command prompt, so I googled how to recover lost files via a command prompt. I found a solution that had me run a command which created a folder on my D drive and started scanning and writing all of the contents of my C Drive into this folder on my D Drive. Unfortunately, I didn't get my lost files back, so I deleted the new "C Drive Deep Scan Folder" and moved on.Fast forward 9 months and I've deleted the folder several times to find it again later and thi

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Deep Scan

While doing a deep scan with Microsoft Safety Scanner scanning just stops and closes.

About halfway scanning window just disappears. No error message just gone.

My machine has had the blue screen of death a number of times. Memory Management three times, IRQL, NOT LESS OR EQUAL, SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED,

 

Im having a Repair C drive Errors.

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Follow these steps to repair corrupt hard disk without formatting, and get back the data.

1. Step 1: Run Antivirus Scan. Connect the hard drive to a Windows PC and use a reliable antivirus/malware tool to scan the drive or the system. ...
2. Step 2: Run CHKDSK Scan. ...
3. Step 3: Run SFC Scan. ...
4. Step 4: Use a Data Recovery Tool.

 

How does Windows boot to advanced recovery option e.g. command prompt?

- that gives me a 454 'Unexpected error' This tells me that the BCD is partially corrupted.

The commands: shutdown.exe /r /o /f /t 00
or: %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c reagentc /boottore&shutdown /r /f /t 00
should boot into Recovery if everything is configured correctly.
FYI, If Windows is configured correctly:

1. If Reagentc is disabled, you still can get into Recovery but with limited options.
2. If Reagentc is enabled, you'll get all options.
3. If you boot Windows using Recovery USB stick, You'll get into Recovery with couple of options missing.

Here's my suggestion if you want to try:
OPTION 1: Will save the trouble of re-install Windows.

1. Download the image of my first 3 partitions (450MB Recovery, 100 MB EFI partition, and 16MB unformatted primary)
   EFI_Boot-00-00.7z - Google Drive
2. Run Macrium and restore the image from step 1, overwriting your existing 1st three partitions, leaving C alone.
3. Delete the 490MB Recovery partition.
4. From Macrium, run fix boot problems.
5. Reboot. Open Admin command prompt then run Reagentc /info to make sure that it is enabled. If not, enable it.
   if failed to enable, reboot and try again.

OPTION 2: Assuming you've already had Windows backup with Macrium.

1. Wipe out the first 5 parttiions. (450MB, 100MB, 16MB, C Drive, 480MB)
2. Fresh install Windows 10
3. Restore C drive from backup image, run fix boot problems
4. repeat step 5 from OPTION 1 above.