Question NVMe SSD randomly stopped booting after 2 years despite still being detected by BIOS and Windows ?

[Uberman9991]

Hey y'all,

My PC has a multiple-disc layout with a Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive, Crucial MX500GB SSD, and a 1TB 970EVO Samsung EVO NVME SSD. Due to the order in which I got these drives (HDD -> SSD -> NVME), all three drives boot Windows; however, the NVME has been my primary use drive.

I was very recently turning on my PC when I got a Blue Screen with an error message: page fault in non-paged area. After multiple restarts and standard troubleshooting (Disk Cleanups, Windows RE, and Disk Diagnosis) I still am unable to boot into this drive and instead am forced to boot into my older HDD. After opening Disk Management to check the afflicted disk (Disk 2), I noticed that there was no System Reserved partition for the NVME drive and three different-sized recovery partitions aside from the primary partition.

From what I've come to understand, the disk layout method my computer uses, MBR, is quite outdated and can only have 4 partitions, so could the excessive number of recovery partitions be the reason my Windows for that drive is unable to boot? Otherwise would anyone know what is the issue with this drive? I'd strongly prefer not to have to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows. I'm happy to provide more info if needed.

https://imgur.com/a/5I13bWm

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You can have multiple partitions on your drives, that can't necessarily be the reason for a drive to stop booting from though you mentioned having a BSoD, perhaps you can pass on a .dmp file for us to look into? If the BSoD only happens when one of your drives is being accessed, then you might want to pay attention to which drive it triggers the BSoD.

As for your platform, can you please pass on the make and model of your motherboard and it's BIOS version? Out of curiosity, do you have multiple OSes on your drives(a dual-boot)?

 

[dwd999]

As your image shows your drive setup is a mess. You may have to reinstall windows so you should prepare for that. Be prepared to convert at least one drive, the nvme, to GPT and then reinstall windows. Note that only 1 drive must be connected at the time you reinstall windows; the others can be connected after installation is complete. Once you get windows working again you can use your older drives to store backup images from a program like Macrium.

 

[Uberman9991]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You can have multiple partitions on your drives, that can't necessarily be the reason for a drive to stop booting from though you mentioned having a BSoD, perhaps you can pass on a .dmp file for us to look into? If the BSoD only happens when one of your drives is being accessed, then you might want to pay attention to which drive it triggers the BSoD.

As for your platform, can you please pass on the make and model of your motherboard and it's BIOS version? Out of curiosity, do you have multiple OSes on your drives(a dual-boot)?

Hey Lutfij, thanks for the advice so far. In terms of my motherboard make and model I'm running a ROG STRIX Z270E motherboard using version 0801 of BIOS. I am running a dual boot setup between my 2TB C drive and 1TB NVME drive; however, I am currently unable to boot from the NVME at all.

This the most recent crash report:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EYWm3LzCyBdg43M150sVjPRdQVBbd6HS/view?usp=drive_link

[EDIT]

Also, I've enabled and had a look at the start up repair trail of the affected drive (after a bunch of startup repairs failed), and it lists only 1 root cause that seems to be this:

Root cause found:
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Unknown Bugcheck: Bugcheck ef. Parameters = 0xffffba8d3b123140, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0.

Repair action: System files integrity check and repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x4005
Time taken = 610 ms

Would this be of any extra use?