Alright, so I'll start at the beginning here. The other night, I put my PC to sleep. My screen went black (as expected) but the PC refused to actually go into sleep mode. The disk activity light was completely off leading me to think there was no disk activity, so I force powered off my PC. Well, when I went to turn it back on, BOOM corrupted C drive. I took my losses and just full formatted the drive to reinstall Windows 10 on it, but the Windows installed refused to install to the drive, said to check the drive.
I ended up installing Windows to a portable USB drive (not ideal, but temporary) and that worked, now from within Windows my original C drive shows as empty and it's usable to store files, but Windows REFUSES to install on it.
Things I've tried:
Chkdsk, no bad sectors found
Full format with diskpart
set the drive as active again with diskpart
bootrec /fixboot and /fixmbr
NO LUCK
My main question, is this drive just gone and not safe to really use anymore? I already ordered a replacement for it, but just want to know if this drive is just blown at this point and not really safe to save files to, it lets me do that but not install Windows. Thanks!
I ended up installing Windows to a portable USB drive (not ideal, but temporary) and that worked, now from within Windows my original C drive shows as empty and it's usable to store files, but Windows REFUSES to install on it.
Things I've tried:
Chkdsk, no bad sectors found
Full format with diskpart
set the drive as active again with diskpart
bootrec /fixboot and /fixmbr
NO LUCK
My main question, is this drive just gone and not safe to really use anymore? I already ordered a replacement for it, but just want to know if this drive is just blown at this point and not really safe to save files to, it lets me do that but not install Windows. Thanks!