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About 6 months back my SSD started showing big signs of corruption including games constantly needing file verification and repairs and my whole desktop flashing and refreshing itself non-stop. In that time I re-installed windows twice which temporarily alleviated these problems. Until my SSD just suddenly decided to stop working all together. Stupidly I didn't backup anything. Since then I have bought new storage devices and now I want to recover some files from the SSD. The problem is the SSD doesn't show up in windows explorer, disk management or any data recovery software whatsoever. I have tried multiple sata ports and honestly I find this so weird that it's not even being remotely detected. Is there anyway I could potentially recover anything from here? Is there something that I haven't done that could make it detectable. Is it recoverable? Please help, thanks!

Problem may have been identified. It kept spamming dashes because on the on-board profile one of my macro keys on my mouse is set to dash and obviously if it was using the software profile thats why it would be spamming shift? I disabled this button and it fixed it up. So that specific button on my g600 is malfunctioning... so weird...

Context: I have a Logitech G600 mouse that has 12 buttons on the side that are assigned to shift shortcuts i.e. shift + f1. I also have an alienware tactX keyboard that I've had for like forever. Video/GIF shows the on-screen keyboard I am not touching anything in the gif this is all happening by itself. I personally point the blame to my mouse as when I search up 'g600 key stuck' lots of problems come up. The problem seems to persist through reboot for me now, previously I was able to rectify by rebooting but now it stays through a reboot. In fact it starts as soon as I Switch on my PC without pressing any of the shift buttons on my mouse. Sometimes it does the shift spaz out that you see on the gif. Sometimes it slows down but sometimes it gets stuck all together. Edit: alright now when I put it in on-board profile mode the dash key is stuck and automatically types itself this is a wtf moment if I've ever seen one I really hope the LTT forums can unpack this mystery, I understand its a very weird one. I've tried re-installing some drivers but it clearly seems to be an issue at software level... 4f098de6ad2e04e31364f028366ca246.mp4

I am most probably getting a new SSD this summer but if it is really something fundamentally wrong with the SSD i'm wondering if there's anything else that could possibly be looked into but when I think about it critically it is an old SSD at this point and S.M.A.R.T definitely isn't the be and end all of it. I just find it weird how my seagate harddrive has genuinely been fine compared to my volatile SSD which doesn't show anything on S.M.A.R.T readings compared to my HDD.

It's 5 years old and it's the SanDisk plus model 240gb. I just find it so curious as first of all I got hit with 2 hard windows corruptions within 2 weeks of each other and it's been months since and it's been fine. However the other bullet points I've made are the things I've seen thats cropped up since that.

So I have an SSD and HDD both the same age. S.M.A.R.T brings up nothing wrong for the SSD. But it does show Reallocated sectors for the HDD but the post isn't about the hard drive thought i'd just add that in. Evidence I've seen on the SSD consistently corrupting items on my SSD: OS supposedly corrupting 2 times, having to reinstall windows. Game that I regularly play had been on harddrive for nearly a year. As soon as I decide to switch it over to my SSD it says that the game files are corrupted and I must verify game file integrity almost every time I launch the game. Programs occasionally stop working as intended, have to reinstall. Chrome seems to be showing evidence of corruption, I deleted user profile data didn't make a difference. So does anyone have any ideas? The 2nd bullet point made me super suspicious recently and what got me to make this post.

Hey everyone, I'm having this problem whereby in games when I pull up a twitch stream on my 2nd (60Hz non-gsync monitor) my game seems to have gsync disabled. I checked the FPS and this was not affected so I thought it had to be gsync causing the issue. This only happens with twitch, with any other media like youtube on the 2nd monitor this doesn't seem to be affected!? I also have enabled gsync on windowed and fullscreen modes. Any ideas??

Solved. Notepad trick on cmd to recover files and clean install of win10 totally freed it of the problem looks like it was windows that got corrupted and not my drive failing thankfully.

I don't believe I can do that outside of windows?

Okay I clicked repair pc and it pretty much shows the same than it would if I went into advanced boot options from the glitched windows which I can do if I beat the refresh. I tried doing chkdsk and SFC in command prompt and none of them worked so I don't know I'm kinda stumped, should I reinstall windows and does doing it affect my files and programs, I've never really done it before

Also what do you mean by troubleshoot installation? That is an option on the win10 iso file?

SanDisks 240gb ssd plus had it since 2015 now

Yes, are you trying to say I should reinstall windows with it?

I'll try it out. My boot drive is a 240gb ssd then I have a 2tb HDD had them both for about 5 years now

For the past week my pc has been prompting me to restart because it found drive errors and wants to fix them. Today one came up and I restarted my PC and then the problem started, I can't do anything to try and fix it as it stops me every few seconds because it refreshes and goes on an endless loop. I also tried booting in safe mode and the exact same thing. How the heck am I meant to fix this??