Question Defective M.2 SSD causes issues after Windows repaired it ?

[Casper655]

Hi everyone,

Below I'm going to explain the horrible and honestly weird situation I got with one application that won't anymore due to 3 different errors. Not all errors show up at the same time, but they do every so often when I try to launch the game.

Situation:

2 days ago I was able to run the game, which is Prepar3d absolutely fine and nothing happened. As usual, the day ends and I turn off the PC. The next day when I wanted to fire up the game again I noticed that the drive can't be accessed and the application won't run because of that (not recognized). Windows gave me an error and stating that it had to the repair the drive in question. Windows restarts and repairs the drive. All totally fine, as the drive is working again and is not randomly disconnecting or showing any other weird behavior.

However, now is the part where I honestly don't know to get the answer and how to fix it without having to completely re-install the game as it took me 3 days to do so just 1 month ago (The game includes a lot of scenery addons, etc..) I also don't know if re-installing it is even the way to go as I don't think it's related to the game. I say that because I re-installed the client of the game, which you can separately install. No luck.

The errors in question are:

1. 0xc0000005. No information whatsoever. The event viewer is unable to tell me what is going on. (

   https://imgur.com/a/r1nqU87

   View: https://imgur.com/a/r1nqU87
   )
2. G2D.dll error. No information whatsoever. The event viewer is unable to tell me what is going on. (

   https://imgur.com/a/GPLv3uf

   View: https://imgur.com/a/GPLv3uf
   )
3. GFSDK_Aftermath_Lib.x64.dll error. Again, no information on the error through even the viewer.

I hope this explanation is clear enough and I hope that someone can point me in the right direction to find the culprit.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
if you're working with multiple drives/partitions, please state which one you'd installed the game on.

 

[Casper655]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
if you're working with multiple drives/partitions, please state which one you installed the game on.

CPU: 13600KF
CPU cooler: Be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black
Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 DS3H DDR4
Ram: Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith RGB DDR4
SSD/HDD: 6x drives in total. 2x M.2. 1x SDD and 2 HDD.
GPU: RT 6800
PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt 750
OS: Windows 11

I installed the game on one of the M.2 drivers.

 

[Lutfij]

SSD/HDD: 6x drives in total. 2x M.2. 1x SDD and 2 HDD.
Please elaborate. Also include a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management. Why do I feel like you've performed an upgrade without reinstalling the OS...?

I installed the game on one of the M.2 drivers.
Please point out which drive, after listing them.

PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt 750
Coolermaster have a number of units under the Master Watt series, which one do you have? How old is this unit?

 

[Casper655]

SSD/HDD: 6x drives in total. 2x M.2. 1x SDD and 2 HDD.
Please elaborate. Also, include a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management. Why do I feel like you've performed an upgrade without reinstalling the OS...?

I installed the game on one of the M.2 drivers.
Please point out which drive, after listing them.

PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt 750
Coolermaster has a number of units under the Master Watt series, which one do you have? How old is this unit?

I've indeed upgraded the system, but I completely wiped all drives from all the data that was on it. Because I'm aware that keeping an install with new hardware isn't the best thing to do. However, the drive in question is a Transcend 110S SSD, 256GB, M.2, PCIe NVME. Initially, it contained my OS but upgraded to a 500 gig drive for some more headroom.

Disk management:

https://imgur.com/a/1r2ZF3c

View: https://imgur.com/a/1r2ZF3c


This unit that I'm using is 1 month old. The J and K drive can probably be ignored as they are external hard drives. The cooler has been updated as I named the wrong product.

 

[Lutfij]

The part that I was looking for, the lower half of what you see in Disk Management(meaning the bars indicating the partitions structures) is missing.

 

[Casper655]

I'm not seeing anything strange.

https://imgur.com/a/gibS2m0

View: https://imgur.com/a/gibS2m0

 

[Casper655]

The topic may be closed as I stopped troubleshooting the drive. I was almost certain it was the drive that gave me the issues and it was much easier to spend 35 bucks just to get a new NVM drive. Even upgrading it to 500GB instead of 250. Thank you anyway!

Reason that I suspected that the drive was faulty is that drive didn't always show up. Opening the drive crashed my PC etc.