DaciaJC
Gold Member
I used a Samsung 980 Pro for about four years as my main boot drive. One night, I powered on my PC and noticed everything was loading very sluggishly. Shortly afterwards, Windows terminated with a BSOD and I was no longer able to boot into the OS.
My first thought was that a Windows 11 update was responsible, as I had installed one earlier that morning. I tried doing a system restore but was unsuccessful. I then theorized that the bootloader had become corrupted and attempted to overwrite it, but that too didn't work since the entire drive had somehow been put into write protection. After some hours of troubleshooting, I finally loaded into a recovery environment using Hiren's and ran a drive diagnostic program which indicated my SSD had a critical failure and was unsalvageable. I had experienced zero issues with this drive prior to that day and had no inclination that it was on its last legs.
Thankfully, I was able to clone that drive to a new SSD and eventually get back up and running. I imagine that may not always be possible, so the lesson here is always keep backups, at least of the things you deem personal or irreplaceable. I had been under the impression that only platter drives are prone to sudden failure, but clearly that isn't the case. I won't be so naive going forward.
My first thought was that a Windows 11 update was responsible, as I had installed one earlier that morning. I tried doing a system restore but was unsuccessful. I then theorized that the bootloader had become corrupted and attempted to overwrite it, but that too didn't work since the entire drive had somehow been put into write protection. After some hours of troubleshooting, I finally loaded into a recovery environment using Hiren's and ran a drive diagnostic program which indicated my SSD had a critical failure and was unsalvageable. I had experienced zero issues with this drive prior to that day and had no inclination that it was on its last legs.
Thankfully, I was able to clone that drive to a new SSD and eventually get back up and running. I imagine that may not always be possible, so the lesson here is always keep backups, at least of the things you deem personal or irreplaceable. I had been under the impression that only platter drives are prone to sudden failure, but clearly that isn't the case. I won't be so naive going forward.
Can't format or do anything with them.
