My PC had shut down due to a power outage. Afterwards, it would not boot properly, looping the Windows circle animation. Same thing on "Preparing Automatic Repair", it wouldn't progress any further. Even plugging in a USB drive and booting from it did nothing.
After a bit of whack-a-mole with hardware, unplugging an SSD fixed the issues and I was back in.
So now the question is what's wrong with it and how can I fix it?
The drive is a Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB. I have two of these, the other is working properly. If it's plugged when booting, system won't boot, however if I plug it in after logging in, it's detected by Device Manager with correct name (only difference is Events log being empty on the broken one), Disk Management freezes up, and Explorer sees the drive with correct letter (D: ), but generic name and no info about used/available space, and freezes when attempting to open it. Task Manager would also freeze when trying to close it, for some reason, and closed as soon as I unplugged the drive.
I tried running "chkdsk D: /f /r" twice times for about 5 minutes each, first time after about a minute it showed "The type of the file system is NTFS.", but nothing else. Second time I unplugged other drives but nothing showed at all.
When I checked in BIOS, it was not visible there. BIOS is currently on default settings.
Tried swapping cables with the "good" drive, this one still refuses to work.
Is there anything I can try to bring it back to life, possibly with the contents mostly in-tact? The fact that I have an identical drive running a-okay is what worries me that it's not just some BIOS setting or driver error.
After a bit of whack-a-mole with hardware, unplugging an SSD fixed the issues and I was back in.
So now the question is what's wrong with it and how can I fix it?
The drive is a Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB. I have two of these, the other is working properly. If it's plugged when booting, system won't boot, however if I plug it in after logging in, it's detected by Device Manager with correct name (only difference is Events log being empty on the broken one), Disk Management freezes up, and Explorer sees the drive with correct letter (D: ), but generic name and no info about used/available space, and freezes when attempting to open it. Task Manager would also freeze when trying to close it, for some reason, and closed as soon as I unplugged the drive.
I tried running "chkdsk D: /f /r" twice times for about 5 minutes each, first time after about a minute it showed "The type of the file system is NTFS.", but nothing else. Second time I unplugged other drives but nothing showed at all.
When I checked in BIOS, it was not visible there. BIOS is currently on default settings.
Tried swapping cables with the "good" drive, this one still refuses to work.
Is there anything I can try to bring it back to life, possibly with the contents mostly in-tact? The fact that I have an identical drive running a-okay is what worries me that it's not just some BIOS setting or driver error.
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