Corrupt

Forum discussion tagged with Corrupt.
  1. dl987

    Question PC not booting after pressing "Y" on FTPM

    Hey all, So I just built a BRAND NEW build all new parts except for the AIO pump and a SINGLE m.2 The problem is after building it and turning it on, I got the error message "Press Y to reset fTPM, if you have bitlocker or encryption-enabled system, the system will not boot without a recovery...
  2. S

    Question ST2000DX001 "Corrupt" (overwritten?) master file table.

    In reference to https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/master-file-table-corrupt-chkdsk-fails.3712756/ : That thread seems to trail off into a cliff hanger, and I have my own issues that are VERY similar to the OP in that thread. So I followed along until I reached the dead end. Where I'm at in...
  3. Btg312

    Question Computer displays corrupted image, USB messed up

    I was going to post about my computer having issues where USB WiFi cards would cut out with too much bandwidth and my wireless peripherals being slow, but a greater issue has emerged. The boot screen, bios, and windows all have this red tint with yellow dots. Windows will load for a second but...
  4. S

    Question Third failed SSD, Windows 10 keeps corrupting ?

    For the past few months, I've had to replace two SSD's due to Windows infinite repair loops and even when I reinstalled windows, the SSD would eventually just crap out. Would could possibly be the issue here? What I've noticed is when the PC is under stress from many Google Chrome windows open...
  5. C

    Question Windows boot up conundrum?

    Hello, I am facing an issue regarding the boot up of windows on my pc, everything was working fine until I shut down my computer last night and turned it on in the morning. I was using 16 gigs of ram for a few months without issues (4gb x 2 Samsung 12800e ecc memory+ 4gb x 2 adata 128000u non...
  6. G

    Question Did I accidentally corrupt my SSD?

    So this all started when my Google Chrome stopped responding, then my entire Windows stopped responding too. I gave it about 5 minutes, but nothing was happening so I decided to shut off my computer. When I booted it back up, it went straight to BIOS, which is then where I saw that the BIOS...
  7. Istio13

    Question Lenovo y520 HDD, SDD died?

    Dear everyone, My problem is that last night I fall asleep while watching some movie(online), my laptop battery drained. Today morning I woke up and suddenly my laptop can't boot the windows. I can hear a little beeping, probably the motherboard because of the failure. The system can't...
  8. G

    Question Suggestion for MOBO replacement

    Hi guys, My mother boad is corrupt, I'm looking to get a replacement, just wondering if there are any alternatives to my current one that are cheaper, My case is cooler master, I believe the legacy model is: Cooler Master HAF 912 Mid Tower Desktop Case My current MOBO: Gigabyte AM3+ AMD 970...
  9. P

    Question USB drive formatting problem

    I used Balena etcher to format a usb stick onto a debian iso, then wanted to undo it. Did diskpart but closed it in the middle of formatting, now even after cleaning it only shows 900~ mb of unallocated space even though it is a 16gb drive. When i do format from the file explorer it says...
  10. B

    [SOLVED] Laptop keeps blue screening

    I have posted a question like this before however this issue keeps coming back. I have had repeated crashes in the past and a replacement fan and heatsink on my laptop fixed the issue as it was due to overheating. However even after the new heatsink assembly and a complete reinstall of Windows I...
  11. M

    Question Windows 7 shortcuts not working ?

    Hi all, I have windows 7 on my laptop and all of a sudden all of my taskbar shortcuts disappeared. The apps are working normally when I open them from their original .exe file but whenever I try to add them to my taskbar or my desktop nothing happens. I tried dragging them and pinning them to...
  12. fipilika

    Question Windows corrupted files

    Hi, I have a problem for more than 1 month with my PC. Every 4-5 PC restarts my apps are being corrupted. I tried everything, reinstalled my windows 3 times, reinstalled my apps a lot of times and also my nvidia graphics driver. You can see here some photos. Can someone give me a piece of...
  13. O

    Question Can a PNG file with defective bit still be opened ?

    Dear all If a PNG file has 1 or more bit, that is either unreadable, corrupt or broken. What happens, if the file is opened in MS Paint or another software? Would an error message appear saying something / file uable to open? Would the software try to repair or fill the gap? Is it the same for...
  14. S

    Question SSD Dead or Fixable?

    Hello all, I have an Asus Predator, Helios 300, which I've owned for around 16 months now. In the recent few months, my 'D Drive' (SSD 1TB) has had some issues. This is from game files being corrupt when on my laptop, and corrupt files while being downloaded. I've factory reset my laptop a few...
  15. S

    Question Which is more likely to corrupt the OS, a force shutdown or BSOD?

    Now that I have a new SSD I don't think I'll be getting any BSOD anytime soon, but I'd like to know how it could corrupt the OS. Here are my two described scenarios for either a possible BSOD or force shutdown in my previous experiences with a HDD: BSOD - A game that is too graphically...
  16. MxzsyXII

    [SOLVED] Can a dying HDD cause problems with Windows that's installed on a whole different SSD?

    So I've got Windows 11 installed on a WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD. I used a 2tb WD Blue 5400RPM that I've had since 2017 for mass storage of games, movies, downloads, clips and everything in between. Recently (even when I was on Windows 10) my OS has been acting a bit funny. It randomly...
  17. Y

    [SOLVED] Stuttering, lagging and random crashes after installing windows 11 and reseating GPU.

    Hello, I encountered a few issues when doing maintenance on my pc and reseating my GPU. Nothing went wrong during the reseating, looked like everything worked, then after booting into windows my pc instantly crashed, tried to restart multiple times and went into recovery. I suspected I did...
  18. B

    [SOLVED] Using applications on external ssd after windows restore

    I am currently having an issue with what seems to be a corrupt windows os. I want to either completely rreinstall windows or do a factory reset however I have all of my games and applications installed onto a 1tb external ssd. If I plug the USB ssd out and then do the factory reset, will I be...
  19. Kyroix 74

    Question BCD corrupted, cannot repair in Advanced Recovery Mode ?

    Hi, i recently did a Windows quality update and i got several pop ups after a reboot saying ‘We couldn’t complete the updates, undoing changes’. This kept coming up. But one time i booted up my pc and it did not start up, instead giving me the screen to the advanced repair mode. I did all the...
  20. rikaskida

    [SOLVED] If i put my very old HDD in my new pc will,it corrupt my current data in my new pc

    i have a old HDD from my 2007 or lower,i tried to collect all the old picture from the disk but i accidentally dropped it from waist level.is it dead/corrupted or i can still get the pictures from my old HDD
  21. PlsHalpSmile

    Question Bootleg vers. of W10 Corrupted

    Pls halp me :) I was helping a buddy of mine diagnose his streamlabs crashing problems.... So I had him install visual c++ redistributables... ( https://github.com/StreamlabsSupport/Streamlabs-OBS#install-visual-c-redistributable ) He installed those and I also had him update his drivers. He...
  22. A

    [SOLVED] Laptop HDD suddenly not initialized - what to do?

    Hi guys, I have an Acer Predator laptop that has a 500GB primary SSD and a secondary 1TB HDD. I recently upgraded my SSD from the stock 128GB to the 500GB one. Today, I remembered that there was a file that I forgot to backup from the old SSD so I opened my laptop and reinstalled the old SSD...
  23. U

    [SOLVED] Windows 10 defender virus detection

    Hi, Everytime I'm openning a software or a game, my Windows Defender detects several threats (5 to 10 files on every opening). Of course, I have a virus, but when I start an analysis, everytings is a threats. So, what should I do ? I need your help, please 😀 Thank you very much !
  24. J

    [SOLVED] Internal HDD unallocated after installion in new PC

    I recently upgraded my PC and with this did a fresh install of windows. I wanted to temporarly connect my old HDD's to transfer the data over to the new m.2 that I have, but the HDD isn't showing in the file explorer. It is however showing up in disk management but as "unallocated". I have...
  25. C

    [SOLVED] unable to delete corrupted data

    I am having an issue while deleting certain files on my sd card which I guess are corrupted I am unable to access my memory card on my phone but can open it on my computer it has certain files that are corrupted and has names like "└²₧┼ΩÖ .πö " special character names and shows that it was...
  26. xrh

    [SOLVED] Constant BSOD and System File corruptions

    As of yesturday my PC has been getting loads of random BSOD, and error codes indicating there are corrupt system files. So the 1st error code I got was 0xc0000221 which was saying my OS couldn't be loaded due to the kernel being missing or containing errors and the file it was showing was...
  27. xrh

    [SOLVED] Fresh Windows Install To SSD from HDD

    My windows 10 keeps corrupting so I'm thinking of installing a fresh windows 10 onto one of my ssds, so that I'm fine with, it's removing windows 10 off of my hdd wwithout getting rid of all of the data. Is there away to do this or no?
  28. Coleudall

    [SOLVED] Possible Failing GPU?

    I've given up and need help - for months I have been having endless issues with my PC and it is only getting worse. I get blue screens a lot, Warzone has crazy texture issues and endless crashes, chrome tabs will suddenly die and tell me to reload, CSGO game files corrupt commonly, and most...
  29. Gmoney57

    Question Why does my Windows installation keep going corrupt?

    I've been having issues with Windows becoming corrupt ever since a few months after I built it. Originally when I first built the PC, I was using a 1 TB Seagate Hard Drive that later had corruption issues and eventually died. Usually, I would be able to use Windows for about a week before it...
  30. Mashuplol

    [SOLVED] Toshiba external drive not letting my boot drive well boot?

    So I have a toshiba canvio basics 1tb and paired with a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb and obviously use the SSD as my boot drive, about a month ago a turned on my PC and it was stuck in a bootloop. So I as anybody would do Install windows again but it was horribly slow so I restarted my PC and then I...
  31. R

    Question Surface firmware update gone wrong - can anyone help make this public?

    Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm not really sure where else this kind of thing can go. Please feel free to advise on what I can do here or if there is anywhere more specific I should be posting this. So here's the story: Microsoft published a firmware update for...
  32. S

    [SOLVED] Data in SSD being corrupted

    Hi, I bought ADATA SU650 960GB SSD as my Storage device, I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10, but its giving warning and asking me to repair disk. I repaired the disk after that I started getting errors in my game 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019' and it asked me to re-download the game as...
  33. C

    Question Bad PSU, GPU, Storage or bad voltage? Display driver crashing

    My PC has been having very strange behaviour ever since I built it. First off these are my specs: All these components are only 1 year old. Now, for whatever reason, when I play only certain games, the game randomly freezes and crashes ( game only, not pc ), sometimes I'll need to kill it...
  34. ogvangstuh

    [SOLVED] I WAS TRYING TO OVERCLOCK AND NOW MY PC SAYS IT NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED...

    So basically, here’s the long story... I’m not sure what’s wrong with my pc but I build it about a year ago and it always was no smooth ride. I’d play a game and it’d crash, but later came to find out it was due to msi afterburner’s overclock. LATER on I came to realize that it was ok to...
  35. B

    [SOLVED] Windows 7 Product Key Validation Error

    Hello, a long time ago, our family invested in a family laptop. That laptop was an ASUS G60VX with a completely legitimate version of Windows 7 Home Premium. About a month ago, I got my hands on a DELL Inspiron 570 Desktop computer with many missing parts. I replaced as many parts as I could...
  36. C

    [SOLVED] How to get data of my corrupt SSD

    My WD SSD Passport 1 TB is no longer accessible its not showing up, its no longer initialised when I try to it shows fatal error and its making a clicking noise on start up (weird as it is a SSD ) I have tried all kinds of scan tools and I have tried Kali but that just showed " /on " not...
  37. Chrise02

    Question Windows 10 corrupt files

    For the past few days ive been having problems with windows, i installed windows on a kingston ssd for my boot drive and thought nothing of it. Then my windows updates wouldn't work so i downloaded them through Microsofts official update catalog and did it that way. Then i kept getting BOTD and...
  38. slumpycs

    Question windows 10 corrupting

    hi all, so i have an ssd, with windows10 installed on it. and i run windows off of the ssd. it had all been working fine untill all of a sudden, i start my pc up again and after waiting for really long my monitor still is completely black, when i move my mouse it just shows a loading cursor...
  39. S

    Question Can't access SSD, but tests say it's healthy and performing fine?

    SSD: Samsung Evo 830 120GB Windows stopped working on it recently so I had to install it on a new HDD, which is being used now. I still have the SSD connected to the m/b, and it appears in the file system, but it says "Access is denied". Permissions are all set to full access All tests and...
  40. M

    [SOLVED] Windows Hibernated during Update.... I believe this Corrupted my Drive

    Hello All, Long but interesting story: I saw that my machine was in a "hibernated' state and upon "waking up" my computer, I saw that it was in a Windows 10 update cycle ("Working on updates 30% completed"). Upon an automatic reboot done by the update, my machine received "Bootmgr is missing"...