Got a usb m2 reader and have that hooked up to a laptop. Running chkdsk /r and seeing a lot of "A disk read has occurred. The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters." I think this confirms what you were saying about sectors being corrupted.
Alright, I do have all of my data backed up - so I probably will just do the format option. Pretty certain after running some more commands within cmd of windows bootable that my m2 is bricked. CHKDSK resulted in "drive is write protected", and I tried to run the command to remove write...
I was doing some work on my PC and left the room to grab a drink - when I came back, my computer had restarted itself which I'm assuming means it crashed. Now, there is a message that says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device". I have 2 M2 devices, a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB (Windows...
asus boot issues
asus motherboard
asus rog strix x570-e
Boot
m2 boot
reboot and select a proper boot device
samsung 970 evo plus
storage
wd black sn850