Windows 10: Major Windows 10 corruption after power outage

Major Windows 10 corruption after power outage

After restarting my PC after a power outage, Windows 10 has a multitude of issues. Those issues are as follows:


- cannot type into start menu, and generally cannot use start menu.
- no internet connection except sometimes in Safe Mode with Networking. When trying to see why there is no internet, things just hang or load to a blank settings page.
- many Windows 10 settings hang on accessing it, and just never stop loading.
- cannot launch certain programs.
- task manager will crash.
- Device manager shows all devices are fine.
- hangs on loading into windows on a black screen with spinning dots for > 10s abnormal.
- Using windows will eventually lead to unresponsiveness.

I can confirm is it windows, and not another hardware problem, as I have put this ssd into another PC, and windows has the same issues, and that PC's ssd into this machine yields no issues.

Its also not just a one off thing, as around 3 weeks ago, I had a power outage that resulted in identical symptoms. Formatting the drive and reinstalling Windows 10 solved it. I really don't want to do that again. After that first failure, I bought an expensive surge protected power bar, which did nothing. As well, my PSU has surge protection, and the outage was from wind. I can confirm there was no surge. All the things I have tried to no success:


- system restore from a week earlier.
- repair install from a Windows 10 USB install Windows 10 over the existing Windows 10
- sfc /scannow returns with "did not find any integrity violations"
- DISM /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth returns with "no component store corruption detected"
- start-up repair from recovery mode
- Disk error checking and chkdsk on all drives.
- uninstall/reinstall devices in Device Manager
- clean boot via msconfig and startup cleanup
- all troubleshooters don't find any issues
- 3rd party registry repair software
- ran rkill, malware bytes, windows defender scan, nothing found.

I am certainly going to buy a UPS to prevent hard shut offs of my computer, but there must be some solution better than everytime my computer doesn't shut down safely, I have to reformat a hard drive.
Can anyone please help me out, I can't find any issues. The fact that this has happened twice now has to mean something. I've had this computer for a few years now, and it's never done anything like this. Thanks in advance, I'm at the end of my rope.

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Power outage caused programs to disappear and/or become disfunctional

Hello,

There are few factors that can contribute to the issue you are encountering. Power outages can result in data loss, corruption of folders/files, and programs not functioning.

To assist you further, kindly provide more details by answering the following questions:

• Which browser are you using to check the passwords and favorites section? Provide the list of browsers where you encountered the concern.
• Have you tried using another account to verify if the programs are still missing on your program list?

There is a possibility that the drive index has been corrupted. We highly suggest that you check your hard drive and scan for errors by following these steps:

• Open This PC on File Explorer and locate your hard drive.
• Right-click and choose Properties.
• Under Tools tab, click on Check Now button.

After scanning the hard drive, hidden files and folders, as well as lost data can be restored.

Additionally, we advise running the System File Checker as another way for us to check or scan for data corruptions in Windows system files that can be affected by the power outage. To do so, follow the steps on this article:

Using System File Checker in Windows 10.

Let us know of any details pertaining to your concern.

 

Windows 10 running slow after power outage


Chance is your HD was corrupted or even damaged due to power outage. Open Admin command prompt:

1. Run: chkdsk /r C:
2. then Run: dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth&sfc /scannow&pause

NOTE: You can copy and paste the above to the command line then run.

 

Windows 10 Boot times issue

The two are linked as you've observed and as I mentioned.

What puzzles me is the change after the power outage, which would suggest some form of corruption, which does not seem the case.

The other thing that can cause slow boot times are certain updates. For example this update:
KB4100347 Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 v1803 - September 13 - Page 9 - Windows 10 Forums

So I'm now wondering if the change in boot time is actually unrelated to your power outage. Using WPR as @zinou suggests is then the next step.