I have a Lenovo g580 laptop running Windows 10. Had some issues with the file system not giving admin permissions. After trying a few things and restarting Windows fails to fully boot. It just hangs on the spinning circles loading animation. If you alt+ctrl+del it brings up a mostly blank login screen. Only the three items on the bottom right (network settings, accesibility, and power/restart) show up along with the background image. As far as I can tell there is no way to bring up safe mode. Is a software error? Something malicious? A dead HDD? Any advice would be appreciated.
As far what I did before it all fell apart:
- Set my user account as owner (was set to system)
- Tried to set my user file folder to not read-only several times
- Tried to change C: to not read-only several times
- Tried to create a new user account. But, the window for that failed to load and that's when I restarted and this happened.
Thanks!