Just started today. Was able to let it automatic repair and boot up. Was on for like 10 hours, shut down and tried to boot up some hours later. Now its completely stuck on automatic repair. Have unplugged all additional hdd's and then all unnesscarry USB's. Still doing this. Also removed my ethernet card. Still the same.
I cannot lose my data. I have several SSD's and HDD's with important files across several of them.
Yeah ill download Ubuntu right now thanks.
Reddit jokes aside: how do I boot into safe mode to update my stupid Nvidia driver ?
You can't boot into safe mode then it's not a driver issue. You might need a pre-install environment. This may be a hardware issue. It also may be a bad update to the kernel.
Jesus christ I am going to lose all of my data on my C drive, arent I?
Is your data encrypted? If not you can simply remove the c drive from your computer plug it into an external kit and view the contents from another computer.
Also, if you do connect it externally and you discover that the disc has issues and it's not just a memory problem or something, do not under any circumstances do a disc fix. I lost to drive that way, 2 TB of information just poof. So if you are able to access the drive but there is actually some issue with the drive just remove the data little by little as you can no matter how long it takes.
Edit: I should have added, you can also use a pre-installed environment OS or an operating system on a thumb drive to access your data. Though I would say for diagnostic purposes removal of the drive to an external kit tends to be better at separating issues with the drive from issues with your actual computer.
Use Arch btw
Can you boot into the OS at all? If so, at the sign in page, hold the Shift Key down while you select Power > Restart.
After your PC restarts to the Choose an Option screen, select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart.
You'll probably want safe mode with networking unless you already downloaded the driver.
Can you boot into the OS at all?
Nope.
If Windows 10 fails to load enough times, it should offer to boot you into safe mode, however, it sounds like you might actually have a failing drive: I'd recommend cloning the drive ASAP to attempt data recovery (don't do anything else to the drive until you clone it). After that, you can try a repair, but if you have a failing drive it's best to stop using it after you get your data.
I think my motherboard has shit the bed. Its been having odd voltage irregularities for a few months now but I just chalked it up to be a custom pc built by a moron.
I can now force the pc to boot from usb windows recovery tool but it still gets stuck on the asus logo. I leave it for an hour and it's the same.
My c drive is a nvme so ill need an enclosure or adapter to pull/clone the vital data...