No sooner then when I came back from work and turned on my PC, I get a check disk scan that won't compleate (always stopping at 3%). Restarted my PC and always ended up with a "Reboot and select a proper device". I booted up my PC again via a Linux USB boot stick to be absolutely sure nothing else is going on (and to recover my files). I then went ahead and gotten Easy Recovery Essentials and booted up fine, though still buggy and now cannot run Steam (not that it matters as I'll explain in the next paragraph, though I can run it on my back up laptop). Right now I'm backing everything related to SFM onto an external hard drive.
right now the plan is to back all of my essential files (SFM, Fallout & Skyrim) onto my external hard drive. Then shop for a new HDD (plus Windows 10 since I doubt licenses for Win7 would transfer) and while I'm at it, a newer video card that can play Fallout 4. Pretty much accelerating my PC build plans, but more or less in a situation where I'm replacing parts. I may, during a diagnostic sweep, replace my memory chips if any of them show a defect.
As of this time, much of my SFM work is going to be on hold until I get my PC in a working and stable state. While it may have been a disaster, it may be a blessing in desguise since it would give me an opportunity to get some hands on experiance replacing computer components (not sure if I can spin that off on a resume
). So long as the computer is not under warranty.
Knocking on wood that it's just a simple "gotta scan the disk completely" scenario and not a "The physical hard drive is failing and must be replaced" error.
