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So I built my second PC and everything seemed to be going well. I had completed the build with no drives Friday and it posted. Saturday I got the drives and immediately attempted to install Windows. Windows would install but after a few minutes trying to download updates and drivers my computer would freeze. I had an M.2 I was trying to use as my boot drive when this happened. I tried everything I could think of to get it to work until I decided to try plugging in my other drives from my first computer a sata SSD and a regular Hard Drive. It worked.

 

I had one crash but I assumed that would go away after updating everything. I used it for the rest of the night even stress testing it at the end to see if anything went wrong. It didn't so I went to bed assuming it must have been the M.2 or the version 1 Windows 10 install being unstable. I woke up this morning and had the worst idea I could have had. Let's test and see if the M.2 is bad or not.

 

I formatted the drive then I completely cleaned it out. I downloaded a drive copying program that everyone seemed to use and I copied my old sata SSD to the NVME M.2 in question. While my computer was on I ran into no issues. I had been using it for a few hours at this point. I turned it off and entered the bios to switch boot drives. Immediately the M.2 said a "Device was missing" so I said "okay back to the SSD" but nope.

 

Upon reassigning the boot drive to the SSD I was meet with a blue screen asking what language keyboard I had. Upon selecting it I was taken to what I assume is the Startup Repair screen. I went through every thing on that screen and got multiple errors telling me it couldn't fix it. At this point I decided to try installing Windows on a different fresh hard drive. It didn't help.

 

On a Seagate Barracuda 4tb 5400 rpm. I had intended this drive to be storage but I used it to test something. Upon the fresh install of Windows and signing in I was met with more crashes and freezes. At this point I used the command prompts in the Startup Repair to clear the M.2 of the copy data because it wasn't working and neither is the drive I copied it from. 

So this is where I'm at right now. 

 

My SSD is out of my new system attached to my old one experiencing the forced Startup Repair issue. I can not find a way to fix this drive and I even used command prompts to try to fix it and was met with "access denied"

 

My M.2 is in my new system and I'm trying to get that fixed but right now I'm running Windows Memory Diagnostics Tools to try and see if my memory is the problem. It's half way done and there's no issues. 

 

I'm at my wit's end here. It worked for 6 hours last night and 3 hours today perfectly fine with the old SSD before I tried to copy my boot drive. I don't know what to do at this point. I can't update drivers because trying to causes a crash. I can't update Windows because it says it's not available at this time. I tried booting into safe mode but I don't know how that would help me fix it. If anyone has any suggestions I'm in desperate need of some guidance. 

 

Thank you in advance

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