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what's it been, 6 weeks now....
sometimes it is faster to accept the fact that (for whatever reason) a complete rebuild is the "let's just get this thing fixed" solution.
the other alternative is to leave it as is, and as stated, the ball is in your court on that one. only you can justify the way forward.
yes a fix would be ideal, but none as been put forward with any success. (and that brings me back to the matter "what's the quickest solution to this?")
 
well correct me if Im wrong but isnt there a way to repair/reinstall windows while still keeping all your data?
 
I thought you had tried that???
but yes there is, get into the ASO (Advanced Startup Options) menu and you can Repair (keeping your data) or Refresh (start anew).
 
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Well as for "trying" that, something happened to my pc then after it was fixed and rebooted a "attempting repairs" screen happened and after that finished the pc booted normally. So does that count?

If not then I didnt physically use the repair/reinstall windows tool because the guide I was reading at the time said i MIGHT need a recovery disc and not to attempt it without one. However my pc came pre-installed with win 8 then i upgraded to win 10, as such i only have a win 8 recovery disc and need a win 10 one. Thus I havent tried that yet.
 
without knowing why it did that "attempting repairs" process, I'll go out on a limb and say No, it didn't do a repair install of Windows, more like it may have been a repair due to the PC turning off abnormally, something like that.

here's how to get into Windows 10 ASO menu; https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-access-advanced-startup-options-in-windows-10-or-8-2626229
here's where/how to get a Win10 image; https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

but in my experience of using the Repair feature in Win10, you won't need a recovery disc.
 
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Well as for the repair attempt it happened because when I booted my PC it made an extremely loud siren sounding sound so obviously I panicked and quickly turned it out (later found out it was due to the GPU or CPU having heating issues, after that was about 75% fixed, I booted it again and thats when the "attempting to repair" haPPENED, THEN AFTER i WAITED AT THAT SCREEN IT BOOTED NORMALLY. opps caps.

Also just to confirm you said youve never needed a recovery disk? Lastly remind me again what all is deleted if you decide to repair but keep the Data? if I recall correct SOME stuff still gets deleted I just forgot what.
 
the repair feature keeps your programs and personal data and reloads Windows.
the dozen or so times I've done that process, it has not requested any other medium to get Windows from, it uses the hidden (usually) Recovery partition.
 
Any update for us Antoine? If unreplied to within 48hrs this thread will be closed.
 
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