Information PC Won't Get Past Windows After Latest Windows Update

I updated to the newest windows version today, thinking it might help with crashing in Cyberpunk2077. After it updated and restarted I got a prompt saying my hard drive needed to be repaired. I went through that, and it took hours, way longer than its taken before when I had to repair it. Now my PC won't load, ultimately ending in a black screen. I can't get to the recovery environment/window in order to try and fix anything or repair, and I will occasionally get the "preparing automatic repair" prompt, which also ends in a black screen. I have tried many different solutions I found on the internet such as power cycling 3 times to try and force the windows repair option as well as putting windows 10 on a usb and trying to access safe mode. That lead to a purple/blue screen with no windows prompt. From there I was able to hit shift + F10 and get the command prompt to use the bcdedit and enable safe mode, but once I restart the PC it does not go into safe mode. I'm assuming my hard drive is to blame, but I'm not sure if it was the windows update either, since they both occurred at the same time. I really don't want to wait two weeks at some over priced repair shop, and would like to replace/transfer my data to a new HDD if I can, but I'm not sure how to do that exactly without being able to utilize the PC and having no other PC other than a laptop (with a second HDD slot, might be able to plug it in there and transfer to an external HDD and then to the new HDD). I've spent all day trying to repair and diagnose this problem, with no success, and this PC has all of my work and school files on it. Any help or insight is greatly appreciated!

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I'm not sure what I did exactly, but after waiting much shorter than I did previously at the windows logo with permanent spinning dots (like 3 hours earlier with nothing happening as opposed to maybe 15 minutes now), my PC went through the process that allowed me to scan and then attempt to repair my disk drive again, this time also taking significantly less time to complete. I had put my PC into safe mode earlier in an attempt to repair it but was never able to get to my desktop, so I was surprised to see it actually worked when I was finally able to get into it with safe mode. I then turned safe mode off and reset, thinking my problem was fixed and then freaked out because I didn't think that it might not have resolved my issue, but after a few minutes I was back in and everything looks good for now! (I didn't know how to delete this thread so I figured I'd reply to it before others)