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TheMetalDaniel
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So,long story short, I had a USB HDD in my system that got corrupted one morning so I removed it and its now in someone else's hands getting recovered.

 

I'm still running windows 10 off the SSD. Whenever i click a photo of any type, it should open in windows photo viewer. But for some reason it says "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture blah blah blah" and it does this on every picture. But when I go into slideshow mode, the pictures shows normally.  Then I tried opening my DAW for recording music, Reaper. The UI had big white squares in some areas, and didn't look normal at all. Now the weird thing happens. I plugged in a USB thumb drive into my pc and it read it as drive E: which is the same letter name as the one that got corrupted. I opened the pictures again, and all worked normally. Opened reaper, normal too!! I unplugged the thumb drive, and both went back to their problems. How the heck can the lack of a drive do this?

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Did you by any chance install windows on the SSD while the HDD was still plugged in?

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7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Did you by any chance install windows on the SSD while the HDD was still plugged in?

I installed windows maybe 2.5 years ago. At the time the HDD was definitely not plugged in yet. And then I got the windows 10 upgrade when it was released, and the HDD was definitely plugged in then. But I never encountered this situation until recently when the HDD got corrupted and I took it out of my PC.

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22 minutes ago, TheMetalDaniel said:

So,long story short, I had a USB HDD in my system that got corrupted one morning so I removed it and its now in someone else's hands getting recovered.

 

I'm still running windows 10 off the SSD. Whenever i click a photo of any type, it should open in windows photo viewer. But for some reason it says "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture blah blah blah" and it does this on every picture. But when I go into slideshow mode, the pictures shows normally.  Then I tried opening my DAW for recording music, Reaper. The UI had big white squares in some areas, and didn't look normal at all. Now the weird thing happens. I plugged in a USB thumb drive into my pc and it read it as drive E: which is the same letter name as the one that got corrupted. I opened the pictures again, and all worked normally. Opened reaper, normal too!! I unplugged the thumb drive, and both went back to their problems. How the heck can the lack of a drive do this?

Are you buy any chance short on ram and your pc is using any non ssd drive as a paging file.

Please quote me so that I know that you have replied unless it is my own topic.

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10 minutes ago, TheMetalDaniel said:

I installed windows maybe 2.5 years ago. At the time the HDD was definitely not plugged in yet. And then I got the windows 10 upgrade when it was released, and the HDD was definitely plugged in then. But I never encountered this situation until recently when the HDD got corrupted and I took it out of my PC.

Yeah, your OS is messed up, probably due to upgrading to windows 10 instead of clean installing the proper way.

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10 minutes ago, Ezio Auditore said:

Are you buy any chance short on ram and your pc is using any non ssd drive as a paging file.

I got 16 gigs ddr4 so I got plenty of room. I reinstalled windows today with the bootable usb so that I dont lose all my stuff, same thing happens.

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2 minutes ago, TheMetalDaniel said:

I got 16 gigs ddr4 so I got plenty of room. I reinstalled windows today with the bootable usb so that I dont lose all my stuff, same thing happens.

Try opening those photos on your phone

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Just now, TheMetalDaniel said:

It was a repair I think. Definitely not clean install. But I was able to keep all of my programs.

Then do a clean install and back up most of your imp file on the os drive

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