Windows 10: SPITTING FEATHERS, CHKDSK WIPED MY COMPUTER!!!

Running Windows 11, today I had a message in the notification area saying 'you need to restart your computer to fix errors on the hard drive ' so I did!Upon restarting noticed windows update etc, when loaded it had completely wiped my computer!Have tried restoring to prior 'windows update' but says cannot be restored?I am at a complete loss and furious, please can somebody help, have not come across this before at all.

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chkdsk c: /F

It might be an error on the drive. We suggests that you follow the troubleshooting steps below:

• Run Disk Cleanup utility to clear your junk files.
• Open an elevated CMD type sfc /scannow and hit Enter to run the System File Checker.
  
• Once the scan is completed, restart your computer. Remember to exit ChkDsk
  during boot.
• Next, again open CMD as admin type
  Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and hit Enter to repair the Windows image.
• Now see if ChkDsk able to complete the scan.

Note: Before doing the steps, make sure you save a back up of your files.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Wiping computer

Your report suggests that your installation has suffered some damage which prevents Windows from doing a reset. In such stubborn cases I would do this:

1. Create a new media installation disk:
   
   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install
2. Run setup.exe on this disk.

It would wipe everything, including your data and all applications.

 

Windows 10 spits out cd/dvd


I downloaded VLC on my computer that runs 10 & it still won't play cd/dvd or install games from cd. It just spits them back out. Any suggestions. Thanks. Russ.