Is my hard drive failing, or is it something else entirely?

[ramencupofjoy]

Basically, Windows 10 screwed up twice now and I'm concerned.

I turn on my computer and get a black screen, restart it and get a bluescreen (something about not being able to read the boot drive) restart it again and get to System Repair and repair the system and do a backup. A week later the same thing happens again, and I’m able to get back in.

The drive is little more than a year old. It's an ADATA SP550.

[dj_ripcord]

Download a drive analysis tool. I use HDS

 

That will tell you if the drive is failing.

[Clockwork_princess]

Have you wrote a lot of data to it? 

 

Likenhave ou moged hugh flies back and froth from the drive? Or just downloaded big files and deleted them?

 

an ssd is not like an hdd. It will die after you wrote a ton of data on it

[ramencupofjoy]

1 minute ago, Clockwork_princess said:

Have you wrote a lot of data to it? 

 

Likenhave ou moged hugh flies back and froth from the drive? Or just downloaded big files and deleted them?

 

an ssd is not like an hdd. It will die after you wrote a ton of data on it

It's a 120gb drive and mostly full, but I've probably only written/read 200gb or less. I don't move around superhuge files, usually 500mb or less. Usually less.

[PlayStation 2]

im fucking dead, you have that lucy profile pic

On topic, your SSD might've just failed entirely from something strange. I know my old PNY SSD failed out of nowhere, also with Windows 10 on it.

[Ryujin2003]

How much free space is on the SSD?

[ramencupofjoy]

Just now, Ryujin2003 said:

How much free space is on the SSD?

15gb.

[Ryujin2003]

Just now, ramencupofjoy said:

15gb.

Hm.. did you try a drive testing software? I use Seagate tools and Western Digital Life Guard.

[ramencupofjoy]

Alrighty, here's a big update.

Now that I'm home from vacation, I can run the Adata drive utility.

Here's my boot drive, the SMART (how ironic) details, and the overlook of my secondary SSD. It's not doing so hot, but I don't see why that would affect my boot drive.

 

[Biggerboot]

16 minutes ago, ramencupofjoy said:

Alrighty, here's a big update.

Now that I'm home from vacation, I can run the Adata drive utility.

Here's my boot drive, the SMART (how ironic) details, and the overlook of my secondary SSD. It's not doing so hot, but I don't see why that would affect my boot drive.

See if it boots without that drive.  Maybe the system partition/MBR is on your secondary SSD, even though it doesn't contain the OS files?  Either that or it's malfunctioning to a point where it's confusing the system during boot.

[ramencupofjoy]

9 hours ago, Biggerboot said:

See if it boots without that drive.  Maybe the system partition/MBR is on your secondary SSD, even though it doesn't contain the OS files?  Either that or it's malfunctioning to a point where it's confusing the system during boot.

Couldn't be on my secondary drive, since I didn't even have it plugged in when I installed Windows. But I'll try unplugging it and see what happens. Took a little longer to boot up this time, and now it wants to work on updates. Probably a coincidence.

Works completely fine.