Windows Issues After Power Outage

[Parker821]

Hey guys, today I was doing stuff on my desktop when the power went out for a second. When I rebooted the pc it would not boot and windows recovery fails every time. Restore and reset both fail as well, I cannot even reset windows to factory. When running a dir on the drives I noticed that I cannot find the drive that windows is installed on. I can find my games drive (hdd) the recovery drive and a drive named windows re tools. I assume this means that the ssd has suffered some sort of failure and I even found some articles talking about ssds having problems after power outages. I would jump to the fact and say that it's the culprit but windows still boots into recovery mode. Does this mean that the drive is still being read and it is not an ssd failure?

Any help would be greatly appreciated cause I kinda need my pc.

Also if anyone has any ups suggestions that won't burn my house down that would also be helpful.

[WhitetailAni]

Your SSD may have received a partial power surge, wiping part of it.

Enough to boot into recovery mode, not enough to do anything.

If you have a different Windows machine, create a bootable USB using Windows' tool, then install on that system. The product key should be reusable

Your files on your C drive will be gone, but your other things should be fine.

 

Or you could talk to (yell at) Microsoft about what to do.

 

I got a free Optiplex 3020 (no OS, though) with a 250GB SSD from my grandpa cause the SSD got nuked.

 

[Parker821]

18 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Your SSD may have received a partial power surge, wiping part of it.

Enough to boot into recovery mode, not enough to do anything.

If you have a different Windows machine, create a bootable USB using Windows' tool, then install on that system. The product key should be reusable

Your files on your C drive will be gone, but your other things should be fine.

 

Or you could talk to (yell at) Microsoft about what to do.

 

I got a free Optiplex 3020 (no OS, though) with a 250GB SSD from my grandpa cause the SSD got nuked.

 

Dang that's unfortunate, thanks for your help!

[WhitetailAni]

Fortunately his Quadro RTX 4000/5000 survived.

It was his CAD machine for his architect firm.

Plus they got a newer optiplex with an 8th gen Intel chip instead of a 4th gen.

[Kilrah]

The SSD likely wouldn't have physically failed, jkust the data on it got corrupted.

[Parker821]

Okay so I did some playing around, I took out the ssd and booted without it and then booted again with it. I took a look at the bios after the second time and it appear finally in the bios. It moved the ssd to the bottom of the boot list so it was booting something else which didn't have windows install on it. After changing the boot order my pc boots just fine.