I'm back to the spinning cursor on display two. Sporadic and heavy disk activity so it's not totally dead. Some feedback would be wonderful

Can no longer enter rescue mode because Windows insists on running their scan and repair (that hangs at 100 percent) before continuing.

chkdsk reports no problem from the rescue image. Rebooting. Now windows is running it again where it will no doubt hang at 100 percent again.

Running chkdsk from rescue image command prompt for some clue

Microsoft: The only company on Earth to make a less intuitive and informative tool than fsck.

@kdfrawg It's laziness and poor design. Had to go umpteen levels deep in the F8 menu to enable safe mode. (Boots fine there), toggle disk check on next reboot, disk check has NO output other than a percentage. I am at 100 percent now and nothing is really happening.

NO OTHER OUTPUT

Power outage. Reboot to constant spinning wait cursor of death. Startup repair fails with absolutely no indication WHY. Restart in safe mode and set drive to be chkdsk'd on reboot. At 52 percent.

What is Microsoft's issue? Why can they not give diagnostics output? Helpful things like 'Bad or corrupted sector'?

Good grief.

This is the first time I have encountered a problem that I couldn't fix. It simply refused to push changes. Maddening.

Thank heavens for git diff and git apply.

git apply editsfromborkedlocalrepo.diff
git commit -a
git push

And I'm back in business. No damned idea what was wrong with the initial local repo but I don't have time to play detective.