So I left my PC off for a couple of days, and inexplicably that seems to have fried my main SSD.Any attempts at turing my computer on lead to what looks to be a boot loop, that ultimately brings me back to the troubleshooting menu.I've checked CMD and it doesn't seem to display the disk, but it does display in my BIOS, and I can't figure out how to fix this.The SSD is a Samsung 860 PRO 1TB and I'm running Windows 10.Any help would be highly appreciated!
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If it's fried, there's nothing you can do about it. Try booting from a Linux live USB and diagnosing there.
Just in case you haven't, try unplugging and replugging the cables. SATA cables have a weird tendency to wiggle themselves loose over time, maybe something to do with thermal expansion.
>>1552809how would it get fried if he had the thing turned off you retard
>>1552811Lightning.
>>1552817There were no power surges while the computer was off
>>1552810I've unplugged and re-plugged just about every drive in my computer at this point, save for my M.2 because it's under my graphics card. Still nothing.
>>1552819static discharge, old age, dunno m8
>>1552834It's not old age because my HDD is older that my SSD and it still functions. In fact I got the SSD to avoid this exact thing from happening with my HDD.I don't know how a static discharge would have gotten to it. I didn't touch anything but the power button. I only started fiddling with the insides after this whole ordeal started.
>>1552837i've had mobos and RAM just up and die randomly. shrug. make a linux boot drive like the other anon said and see if it shows up in disk manager.
1. check if sata cables are plugged in correctly2. try messing around with boot settings, put on legacy boot on and off, UEFI mode on and off, change primary boot opions, etc 3. take out the CMOS battery and put it back in after few minutes, try turning on pc and messing with the boot settings once again 4. use rufus and burn newest windows onto a pendrive, plug it in, set main boot option to usb drive and it should fix the pc if its an update gone wrong Ive had the same problem and couldn't figure it out for months, turns out it was just windows update gone wrong so doing no. 4 fixed it One of those is guaranteed to work, if not then I dont know, probably fucked ssd (in that case try puting the ssd into another pc and seeing if it works)although it should be fine if the pc detects the ssd in boot options
>>1552845>boot optionsI man, if ssd shows up in the bios it should be fine
reseat ram
>>1552845I tried the sata cables they're fine.I tried booting in CSM instead of UEFI. I'm able to see the drive in the boot menu then, but still couldn't successfully boot it when I tried.I haven't touched the CMOS battery yet but I might try that next.I don't have another PC that I can connect the drive to to test it.I did attempt to use Rufus to burn Windows 10 to a flash drive, but when I tried to boot from it, it just gave me the windows setup, so I might have done something wrong.I was thinking of trying to boot a Linux based OS from the flash drive to check for the SSD through there, but I'm not sure which one to roll with because I have extremely little experience with Linux in general.I'm really hoping that it's just the Windows update gone wrong, because I vaguely remember updating my computer a couple of days before all of this happened.
>>1552858>I tried to boot from it, it just gave me the windows setupComplete it and see what happens might be a gamble though, could just accidentally wipe the ssd
>>1552858>I did attempt to use Rufus to burn Windows 10 to a flash drive, but when I tried to boot from it, it just gave me the windows setup, so I might have done something wrong.No that's what's supposed to happen. Maybe you were expecting a live session as with a Linux ISO, but that's not how it goes with a Windows ISO.>I was thinking of trying to boot a Linux based OS from the flash drive to check for the SSD through there, but I'm not sure which one to roll with because I have extremely little experience with Linux in general.Linux Mint is a good go-to for a USB live ISO. It has some useful tools pre-installed to get you out of a pickle, while other distros often lack them out of the box.My suggestion would actually be to flash rEFInd on the flash drive and boot off that after going back to UEFI from CSM. That should allow you to boot into your Windows install and fix the problem.https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>>1552860Would running the Windows setup not just format the disk? I know there's a way for Windows to read a previous intall of itself and then migrate everything over, but if I can't get Windows to detect it at all then I'd imagine it'll just reformat the whole thing
Minor update: I found out how to run a full version of Windows 10 from a flash drive, did so, and looked for the SSD. It doesn't show up in my file explorer, but it does show in my disk manager as "unknown" and "not initialized".
I'd also like to mention that if the intent with the flash drive was to use the Windows 10 repair feature from the setup menu, then that wouldn't work. I attempted that, but it still didn't detect the drive.
