Windows 10: I can’t sign in to my account after accidentally cutting off the power while my laptop was...

A little bit of background: Whenever I don’t need to bring my laptop anywhere, I take out the battery and leave it on the charger. With all of the stuff going on these days I won’t need to bring my laptop anywhere for a while so it has its own setup on my desk with the charger going from the wall, behind my desk, and up the back for easier access.

(TL;DR at bottom)
It was the end of the day, I finished what I needed to finish on my computer and closed everything to get it ready for a good night’s sleep. I go over to the little windows icon at the bottom left of the screen, click that, go to the power icon, click that too, and finally I click the shut down button. I wait for a couple seconds and the screen finally goes black but the computer is still on, I wait a couple more minutes and nothing changes. I decide to brush my teeth instead of sitting and waiting. So I get up but since it’s dark I can barely see anything with only a small lamp by my bathroom lighting my way. As I’m walking, I take a step and feel something catch my foot but then quickly release. I turn on my phone flashlight (should have done that earlier) to see what it was. It was my laptop charger. I look back and my laptop is completely off, I thought nothing of it so I just continue with what I was going to do and then go to sleep. I wake up, continue with my daily schedule, and when it comes time to use my computer I turn it on. I wait for the sign in screen to pop up, when it does I sign in. I wait for my home screen to pop up, and when it doesn’t a blue error message pops up. I tried signing out and signing back in, restarting my laptop and signing back in, I did some research and found a way that looked promising , I tried that and still got nothing. Thank you in advance for your help.

TL;DR: Laptop was shutting off, I disconnected the charger which cut the power. In the morning I try signing in and got an error message. I tried signing out and then in, restarting and signing in, even this option I found but I still have no luck.

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The error code that your are getting when adding an account is usually caused by the following:

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Keep us posted for further assistance.

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