So, thrice this week, my pc went into « reparation mode » when I either start it up or restart it. Yesterday, it told me to restart, for the sole purpose of doing that, saying that there were problems reading the hard drive. Everytime, it shows « reparation (D:), step 1 (… out of 46848) » with an estimated time of initially just 30 minutes, before going up to 40 hours, and then coming back down to 1 hour-ish. If I let it do that (which I was never really able to avoid) it just does it’s thing and starts up normally, but I haven’t done anything damaging to my PC and it’s always working without any problem, so l’m just wondering why it does that and if I can stop it from happening, it just seems a little useless
How old is your hard drive ? Sounds to me like it is on the verge of failing.
Just to make sure, grab all the important data from your drive and relocate them to a different device.
Grab yourself a free tool that can read the S.M.A.R.T. data from your drive, it should tell you if the drive is failing.
edit: For a very quick check, hit win+r and enter CMD in the text box to open your command line. Run the command
wmic diskdrive get model,status