- Dec 21, 2022
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I wanted to power up my PC yesterday and noticed that the password screen froze. Once I restarted it, the BIOS screen informed me that the G Drive (SSD) needed to be repaired, but about 4-5 minutes later, Windows 11 (latest version) started. I did notice that the file system felt quite a bit slower than it did before this weird occurence. Dragging files from one desktop folder to another takes a minutes, whereas before it took a second. The "installed applications" system window doesn't list any applications and the G drive is shown as present, but there's no space information bar and no drive name.
Thinking that this faulty G drive is behind all this, I ran the chkdsk G: /f /r /x in an administrator command prompt. Then two "unspecified errors" occured and the repair thus failed. The task manager performance window displays active time for this disk G at a permanent 100% even though I can't access it at all via the file explorer. Does this mean that this SSD is unusable?
Since I have a system restore point from a few days back, I tried to use it, but now, for the last 4 hours or so, the screen is stuck at "system restore is initializing". Even though the circle is moving, the message remained the same for quite a while.
I thought about cancelling the restore process and restarting the system, but I'm afraid that this will only lead to bigger problems. I could try to use a bootable windows 11 USB and run disk repair commands from there, or even a new Windows 11 install that leaves most of the data on C intact (not sure if that's even an option).
What do you guys recommend?
My C drive is an SN850x with 2TB (of which only 300GB were left free) and the data G drive is a Samsung 870 QVO 2TB (about 200 GB of free space). The CPU is an AMD 5950x.
Thinking that this faulty G drive is behind all this, I ran the chkdsk G: /f /r /x in an administrator command prompt. Then two "unspecified errors" occured and the repair thus failed. The task manager performance window displays active time for this disk G at a permanent 100% even though I can't access it at all via the file explorer. Does this mean that this SSD is unusable?
Since I have a system restore point from a few days back, I tried to use it, but now, for the last 4 hours or so, the screen is stuck at "system restore is initializing". Even though the circle is moving, the message remained the same for quite a while.
I thought about cancelling the restore process and restarting the system, but I'm afraid that this will only lead to bigger problems. I could try to use a bootable windows 11 USB and run disk repair commands from there, or even a new Windows 11 install that leaves most of the data on C intact (not sure if that's even an option).
What do you guys recommend?
My C drive is an SN850x with 2TB (of which only 300GB were left free) and the data G drive is a Samsung 870 QVO 2TB (about 200 GB of free space). The CPU is an AMD 5950x.
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