

I have tried to delete this folder but all I get is access denied. Thousands of entries referencing the C:\$Extend folder. When I placed my mouse on top of one of the grey blocks, I see

I then tried using Auslogics Disk Defrag (using the 'optimize' feature) to move all data to the front of the C drive - and that's when I noticed hundreds of unmovable grey blocks in the Disk Defrag user interface. When I use disk management (diskmgmt.msc) to shrink the C drive, it tells me there isn't enough free space to shrink the drive - this is most likely because I have data scattered all over the C drive that isn't movable and therefore won't allow me to split the drive. I am now trying to partition the C drive into two partitions (C and D), with C containing only the operating system and D drive containing my user data. To fix this, I created Windows Install media on a USB thumb drive using another PC, then I booted off the thumb drive on the broken PC and reinstalled Windows. My Windows 10 PC recently updated, but got stuck in an automatic repair boot loop.
