Disk Checking

[MartinTheActor]

Could do with some help. I turned on my PC this morning and went to get my morning cuppa (hang over from when PCs didn't boot as fast as they do these days). When I returned the darn thing was in Stage 1 Disk Check. As it's an SSD, and there's no obvious way it could've been damaged I gave the system over six hours. The check was still running. As I can't afford any more downtime, I held down my power button, waited for reboot. This time I caught and skipped disk checking, but no joy booting into windows.

So, I grabbed my most recent Windows Installation media and have tried to repair startup, with no joy. Incidentally, no joy with trying to run a fresh install over the disk either.

 

So, I've thrown in a spare back-up drive with a clean windows install. PC boots up fine. All the other drives in the rig running and no problems that I can see. 

 

I then popped the original SSD back in the rig, but booted from my back-up drive. I can see the file structure in windows explorer, I can see the files. I can't access anything though. So, I ran Adata's SSD toolbox diagnostics and a few others. It's reporting zero problems with the drive. 

 

So, I guess the question is, am I stuck having to run a windows error check to recover what data might be on the drive? And/or get windows to be able to recognise and utilise the drive again?

I'm running Windows 10 Home, the problematic drive is an Adata SU630. (I'm running a Ryzen 5 3600 on an AsRock B450 Pro4 if that helps). I also have a couple of older laptops that run Linux Mint if there's any helpful way of sorting stuff there.

Any help that can be offered would be gratefully received.

[emosun]

Yeah sounds like the drive is fine and windows just decided to nuke itself so you may need to run that error check. Or just reinstall the os.

[MartinTheActor]

Just now, emosun said:

Yeah sounds like the drive is fine and windows just decided to nuke itself so you may need to run that error check. Or just reinstall the os.

Thanks, sadly, it looks like windows just flat out doesn't want to reinstall on the drive and I can't see why. Best guess is that maybe windows update screwed up? Does that happen?

Think a format may be in that drive's future.

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, MartinTheActor said:

Think a format may be in that drive's future.

well yeah , you aren't just going to install another windows right on top of the old file system

[MartinTheActor]

Just now, emosun said:

well yeah , you aren't just going to install another windows right on top of the old file system

I can neither confirm, nor deny that I *may* have done that in the past before I knew better 

 

Thanks for the fresh set of eyes on this though. I appreciate it.