Question SSD Prevents bios from loading - samsung 970 evo plus NVMe m.2

[dorh]

Hello everyone,
Sorry in advance for my lame English!

My computer has 2 Samsung 970 evo NVMe m.2 attached to it's mother board, both has been working well for a few months now.

1. 250gb samsung ssd with windows and system files.
2. Only media 1T samsung ssd
3. I run windows 10
4. msi motherboard

Both are NVMe M.2

• a few days ago my computer had a blue screen of death with a smiley face

• After a restart, the msi logo showing, below it loading circle turned for 2 seconds and then everything froze for atleast an hour.

• after force restarting computer took a very long time to boot and when I Finally entered windows the entire Drive D (Media samsung ssd) was gone. ( not even recognizable)

• after another restart it again froze at the exact same point during the loading process with the msi logo.

• another force restart showed msi logo with white "repairing" which finished doing something and then showed me a blue screen with 2 options: restart and advanced options.

• restarting gives again the msi logo that gets stuck after 2 seconds, preventing windows from booting.

• this Loop now goes on for a while,
• after removing 1tb samsung storage from the mother board, computer boots fine and everything works correctly.
• when I plug it again, all problems return and windows can't boot.
• I Installed it on other computers and they get stuck also, preventing them computer from even booting.

Does anyone know of a possible fix for this?
This D drive has a lot of sensetive information on it and at the very least if I can't find a fix I wan't to format it.

Have a great day, hope I was being clear on what's happening.

 

[popatim]

You could try placing it in a usb>nvme enclosure and using disk management to format it.
I think this is the one I have (I'm not home to check) https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-NVMe-Enclosure-Gbps-Support/dp/B08G14NBCS

 

[dorh]

You could try placing it in a usb>nvme enclosure and using disk management to format it.
I think this is the one I have (I'm not home to check) https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-NVMe-Enclosure-Gbps-Support/dp/B08G14NBCS

Hey there Popatim, Thanks for replying!
So I actually have this kind of device. To be specific I have: Vantec NexStar SX M.2 NVMe to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C Enclosure ID5.

Here is what I found. through using it Most times Drive D Won't even show up or be recognized, even so while scanning with my Samsung magician software the program get stuck while scanning... can't even exit it unless I unplug the Case with the SSD media drive. Then it goes back to normal and shows me only my functional Windows Drive.

There was one time where I could actually see the Image of D Drive and the loading bar above started to fill, but toward the end it stopped from ever filling. I tried to right click on the D Drive (It showed no Xgb out of Ygb it usually shows). right clicking made my entire browser stuck and infact all windows functionallity, nothing was clickable anymore (mouse was still moving).
I tried to shut down the computer and encountered a loading screen that didn't seem to end. so i unplugged the Media drive and everything came back to normal, computer shutting off normally and starting again normally.

This is frustrating, any Idea if I can try something else? Somehow blind backuping it? or just even formatting it somehow?

 

[geofelt]

What might have changed since all was well?
Perhaps a bad windows update?
Samsung has a nvme driver for their units.
Download and install it.

Tool & Software Download | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Download various software related to your product, including Samsung Magician, designed for use with Samsung's memory products, and find related information.

www.samsung.com

Can you use system restore to reset your pc back to when all was well?

 

[popatim]

If the drive is showing up with a drive letter then i would try a "clean all" command from within diskpart

https://www.diskpart.com/articles/diskpart-clean-all-ssd-7201.html

 

[dorh]

What might have changed since all was well?
Perhaps a bad windows update?
Samsung has a nvme driver for their units.
Download and install it.

Tool & Software Download | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Download various software related to your product, including Samsung Magician, designed for use with Samsung's memory products, and find related information.

www.samsung.com

Can you use system restore to reset your pc back to when all was well?

Hey Geofelt! Thanks for trying to help
I think the only thing I remember i was doing was:
I saw the Media drive is almost full and was showing in red (around 80gb left out of 1 T) So I Deleted one of my heavy steam games, it freed a bunch of space and went back to being blue, I think a minute or 2 after that the blue screen happened and I entered this weird loop.

Perhaps a bad windows update? Not that i'm aware of but maybe? :/
Download and install it. problem is I already have a working windows booting 250gb samsung evo, uninstalling or trying to repair wont affect it? how do i know if my drive is up to date? ite shows under device manager>storage controllers>samsung nvme controller but I can't seem to find a version number.

Can you use system restore to reset your pc back to when all was well?
hmmm, I'm not sure. I didn't set it up to create backups or anything.. does this process happens autumatically? I can just try to restore my pc to a former state?
If so I have no idea how.

Have a great day Thanks for taking your time to answer!

 

[dorh]

If the drive is showing up with a drive letter then i would try a "clean all" command from within diskpart

https://www.diskpart.com/articles/diskpart-clean-all-ssd-7201.html

I might try that if I can make it appear again (it was the first and only time it showed like this, usually it doesn't even register that it's there).
Do you know of any program that might salvage some of the data inside before I wipe it all out?

 

[popatim]

Copy & paste if it will stay connected long enough.
Dedicated recovery software: testdisk, Recuva, @USAFRet What's that one you've been using lately?

 

[dorh]

Copy & paste if it will stay connected long enough.
Dedicated recovery software: testdisk, Recuva, @USAFRet What's that one you've been using lately?

A little update, I managed to get some kind of error message while connecting the ssd nvme encasement with the Media drive, it looks like this:
d:\
“This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Apps Setting page”

Also I was able to (kinda) make testdisk recognize Drive D, but it was weird I had to connect it in the middle of the program running, no clue what to do next.