Interesting- because this was my next line of thinking- HD failure... major crash resulting in having to use start up repair this morning too.
Thanks Softwaremaniac- I know this is technically a windows update subforum.. etc so I appreciate you going right out of your way here.
GSmart control ran in " extended self test" mode kept " completing with read failure at 10%"( I tried this a few times)
"Test #","Type","Status","% Completed","Lifetime hours","LBA of the first error"
2,"Extended offline","Completed with read failure","10%","26883","65398488"
there were a few of those- Im unclear if you want the output log for this: so ill attach it anyway