Steam SSD was corrupted

[ssandde]

Hello all!

I wish I was posting on a more happy subject, but here I am... So I booted up my windows normally today, and wanted to play some PU:BGs with a friend. To my shock I couldn't launch steam, and I saw a message on the WIN10 action center that my Steam SSD had problems, and I repaired it with within the Action Center, and restarted my pc.

 

After this steam opened normally, and I noticed that I had to reinstall PUBG again, and so I tried. My friend started sharing his gameplay via Steam's share gameplay feature for me, at the same time PUBG was downloading. And this is when things started to get crazy: my steam crashed, and the F drive didn't show up at all in My Computer. Again, I restarted, and tried to access the steam folder. I noticed the steam drive's letter had changed from F to E. And now the PUBG game folder was completely corrupted, even when I uninstalled the game through Steam's 'fix library' function. So I did a quick format of the SSD, and now my weekend plans include downloading all games again to steam.

 

Some background info on my PC: I built it myself two months ago, and everything has been perfect, expect when downloading a season of a tv show, and mid-download I wanted to watch an episode, while QBittorrent was still downloading the rest of the files. Same thing: F drive completely missing from My Computer, and it was showing as just a folder with a question mark on it. I use a 500gb Samsung 850 Evo from my steam, and an OCZ Vector 240gb for my Windows.

 

Any help on why this might have happened, and how to prevent this in the future? All help is greatly appreciated!

 

PC Specs: i7 7700k (stock clocks on a noctua NH-U9B), Asus gtx 1080 A8C, Asus Z270E mobo, 32 gb corsair vengeance LPX 2666mhz ram, corsair 520watt psu.

[porina]

Download Samsung Magician software and see if that reports anything about the SSD.

 

A bad SATA cable could also cause problems so if you have a spare try another one.

[ssandde]

28 minutes ago, porina said:

Download Samsung Magician software and see if that reports anything about the SSD.

 

A bad SATA cable could also cause problems so if you have a spare try another one.

Magicial software reports nothing - says SSD condition is good. I'll change the SATA cable just to be sure.

[NinJake]

Yeah due to the drive letters changing it sounds like it's a faulty connection somehow. Try a different cable as well as a different sata port if possible.

[ssandde]

19 hours ago, porina said:

Download Samsung Magician software and see if that reports anything about the SSD.

 

A bad SATA cable could also cause problems so if you have a spare try another one.

 

18 hours ago, NinJake said:

Yeah due to the drive letters changing it sounds like it's a faulty connection somehow. Try a different cable as well as a different sata port if possible.

 

SATA cable and port changed, seems to be working again like a charm! Thanks for the help!