Automatic update loop solved by unplugging SSD?

[mickster1988]

Hello, I was stuck in an auto update loop and everything I tried in the blue troubleshooting screen kept giving me errors. I was getting ready to do a full Windows 11 reinstall, had the USB in, changed boot priority to USB, and it was still giving me trouble saying it was trying to update instead of a fresh install. So I messed around with the USB and tried again, this time I remembered to disconnect the SSD that I use for extra storage space in addition to my M.2 and it started up like nothing had happened, even still has my profile. Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if there's anything else I should do, I'm thinking maybe just get a new SSD? Thank you in advance for your help.  

[Robchil]

Sounds like your SSD had a corrupted bootloader it tried to boot with. 

 

[mickster1988]

26 minutes ago, Robchil said:

Sounds like your SSD had a corrupted bootloader it tried to boot with. 

 

Gotcha, do you think I'll be able to wipe it and put it back in or just replace it when I need more space? I don't really need it now, I just added it to my build because I had it laying around. Also, do you think it would have affected anything else or would it probably be contained to the HD. Sorry for all of the questions, I'm super new to all of this and not really sure how else to learn. 

[Robchil]

if it's old, it's probably with MBR format, wiping all partitions and changing it to GPT should clean it.