Optane accelerated boot issue

[MojangYang]

Hey guys, haven't posted here in a while because I realised I've been posting a lot of cringe. But I ran into a real issue today so here I am.

I had my pc since 2018 and overall, it's been working fine, with a few bumps along the way.

Specs:

Windows 10 Pro

i5 8400

32gb ddr4 2666 (corsair vengeance pro)

GTX 1060 3GB (Gigabyte)

Aorus ultra gaming 2.0 mobo, z370

1TB 2700 Seagate Barracuda HDD with 16GB of optane for acceleration.

 

But lately, it has been bluescreening a lot upon waking from hibernation mode, I didn't think much of it and instead put it into sleep mode when I'm not using it, thinking I would be getting an ssd soon but I never did. This lasted a few months until today, when it crashed upon waking. After 10 minutes, optane synced with my hdd and my PC booted, only to freeze and crash again on the lock screen. Windows tried to restart again but It's been stuck on the spinning circle for hours. No splash logo, just a spinning circle.

Is there a way to fix this? Is it safe to hard-shut down my pc and reboot at this stage? And assuming the data is intact on both the optane and HDD, is there a way to get them back? Would data recovery services be able to do so?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

You should just be able to just force it off.

Optane accelerates hdds for boot are always a mess to deal with. I've never been able to get one to work right without messing with them fore a bit.