[SOLVED] Have I ruined my new SSD? I'm freaking out.. :(

[RobtheSwede]

I have a Seagate Firecuda 530 NVMe SSD Gen 4 2TB that is not even half a year old that I'm experiencing a scary problem with. I've done a windows drive test thing and it says the drive is ok, yet, the drive is now for some reason in read only mode. So I cannot delete any files from the drive or move them. This started today after i tried two different file recovery programs in (failed..) attempts to recover a video file I had accidentally deleted.

So it must have something to to with this as the drive is otherwise fine and I haven't had any problems with it. What I'm afraid of now is if these stupid recovery programs have somehow ruined my drive. Why did they lock up my drive like this? They didn't warn me about that as I was trying them out.

If I rightclick on the drive and go to properties and Security, it says under "Authenticated Users" that I do not have "Full Control" of the drive. Under System, it says "Full Control", under Administrators "Full Control" also, but under "Users" it doesn't.

When I try to put back "Full Control" it gives me a weird error message that reads like this:

An error occured while applying security
information to:

Z:\100 Run All Dark Magic.tmdx

The Media is write protected

Now.. that kinda terrifies me, because
I have no idea what that means, I have no
such directory on my hard drive. What does
it mean? 🙁

Any help appreciated as I'm pretty scared at this point.. 🙁

 

[COLGeek]

Have you scanned your system for malware?

 

[RobtheSwede]

No I have not, do you know of any decent free anti-malware program I can try out? 🙁

 

[COLGeek]

Malwarebytes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download

Hitman Pro: https://www.hitmanpro.com/en-us/downloads

 

[RobtheSwede]

Okie, I did a quickscan with hitmanpro, and it found nothing at all.

 

[zinkles]

are you sure it hasn't reached its max read write capacity? this could cause it to go to read only mode to prevent existing data from being lost.

 

[COLGeek]

Okie, I did a quickscan with hitmanpro, and it found nothing at all.

What did you recently install or change before this problem started?

 

[SkyNetRising]

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Generally when a critical SMART parameter gets tripped, drive goes into read only mode.
You can recover your data from it.
After that you replace the drive.

 

[RobtheSwede]

I tried using Recuva, Testdisk 7.2 and and Disk Drill. (Sorry, misspoke earlier when I said I had tried only 2 reovery programs. It was 3)

 

[COLGeek]

I tried using Recuva, Testdisk 7.2 and and Disk Drill. (Sorry, misspoke earlier when I said I had tried only 2 reovery programs. It was 3)

How full is the SSD? Have you tested with the Seagate tool suggested?

 

[RobtheSwede]

I did the Seagate tool test now and it passed it. 100% health on the disk it says also. I have some 470GB free space.

 

[COLGeek]

I did the Seagate tool test now and it passed it. 100% health on the disk it says also. I have some 470GB free space.

What did you install or change prior to this happening?

 

[RobtheSwede]

Just those three recovery programs.. nothing else.. happened literally right afterwards (when I decided to give up trying to recover the accidentally deleted video file..)

 

[COLGeek]

Just those three recovery programs.. nothing else.. happened literally right afterwards (when I decided to give up trying to recover the accidentally deleted video file..)

Try running SFC and DISM:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb...em-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

Uninstall the recovery tools (if not already done so) first.

 

[RobtheSwede]

I typed in cmd prompt:
and this is what i got..

"C:\Windows\System32>DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Error: 740

Elevated permissions are required to run DISM.
Use an elevated command prompt to complete these tasks.

 

[COLGeek]

In Search, type Command. This will open a dialog windows where you can "Run as administrator". This will get you going.

 

[RobtheSwede]

Okie, I did the DSM thing and then it said "The Restore operation completed successfully" Didn't seem to do anything tho... or do I have to type more stuff in here?

 

[zinkles]

SFC /scannow also should be run

 

[RobtheSwede]

I also did the Scannow thing and it said
"Windows Resource Protection Found Corrupt
Files and sucessfully repaired them" But still nothing... But I think it only did it for the C drive which is my OS drive.. don't I have to do it for the problem drive as well? I just don't know how the command prompt works well enough to target it..

 

[COLGeek]

Restart your system to apply the changes made. Does the behavior change?

 

[RobtheSwede]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>Z:\RepairSource\Windows
The system cannot find the path specified.

I think I did something wrong there right? 🙁

But I will restart and see what happens.. because it "repaired" stuff on the C drive, so maybe that's enough.

 

[RobtheSwede]

No, nothing when I restarted. But I think I have to do what I did to the Z drive, I just don't know how to target it with the cmd prompt.

 

[COLGeek]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>Z:\RepairSource\Windows
The system cannot find the path specified.

I think I did something wrong there right? 🙁

But I will restart and see what happens.. because it "repaired" stuff on the C drive, so maybe that's enough.

Do you actually have a Z drive assigned on your system?

 

[RobtheSwede]

Yep, the Z drive is the problem drive in question.

 

[zinkles]

SFC is for the windows drive to check for errors in windows system files. running it in another drive wont do anything I assume. I tried on my system to run the SFC on another drive, but it doesn't work, and fails to start.