M.2 Crash

Eugene said:

Hey all. I had my M.2 hard drive crash. I wanted to create a thread to talk M.2 if that is fine. Kinda two questions for the moment minus any other information you can post. Figured good chat for your classroom as well. Good thing for the cloud backup....Whaaaaaa.

1st - My M.2 ssd will power on but can't even detect it. I was getting a page_file error and suspected maybe OS corruption but the got the WHEA_Uncorrectable_Error and it failed. Is there a way to access the information still or is the Boot order totally gone maybe since it said "system type: ntfs" at the bottom. (Iam wondering if heat could have been a factor in this to since it was about my 3090 / I am using Speccy to monitor temperatures at the moment since I replaced it and everything seems fine until I play lots of games making the GPU go 75'C - 79'C which is still good for the GPU but maybe not added heat to the M.2 above) - Thoughts

2nd - Any good way to free back up used sectors that might have been blocked because I see that you will delete data but maybe it will only block it off instead. Idk if "TRIM operations" help with that. I figured only good to do that once in a blue moon since SSD don't like a lot of certain actions. I am also assuming it will just over write that data eventually if it needs the space.

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Eugene said:

Hey all. I had my M.2 hard drive crash. I wanted to create a thread to talk M.2 if that is fine. Kinda two questions for the moment minus any other information you can post. Figured good chat for your classroom as well. Good thing for the cloud backup....Whaaaaaa.

1st - My M.2 ssd will power on but can't even detect it. I was getting a page_file error and suspected maybe OS corruption but the got the WHEA_Uncorrectable_Error and it failed. Is there a way to access the information still or is the Boot order totally gone maybe since it said "system type: ntfs" at the bottom. (Iam wondering if heat could have been a factor in this to since it was about my 3090 / I am using Speccy to monitor temperatures at the moment since I replaced it and everything seems fine until I play lots of games making the GPU go 75'C - 79'C which is still good for the GPU but maybe not added heat to the M.2 above) - Thoughts

2nd - Any good way to free back up used sectors that might have been blocked because I see that you will delete data but maybe it will only block it off instead. Idk if "TRIM operations" help with that. I figured only good to do that once in a blue moon since SSD don't like a lot of certain actions. I am also assuming it will just over write that data eventually if it needs the space.

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• Good point on cloud backup, or any form of backup, I would say.
• Heat can affect SSDs, especially if it keeps on running above 70 deg C. Consider using a heatsink or a cooling system.

• on detection, can you see it in the BIOS/UEFI page?
  • if yes, then hardware is alive. you may try to attach M2 SSD as secondary disk to check further
  • if not, try attaching it to others, unless you got disk encryption. If still not, then hardware could be dead.
• attach it as secondary, then check it in device manager and/or disk manager
  • If you see it in device manager with error, then resolve the driver
  • check disk manager, the SSD may need to be reinitialized
  • check disk manager, if the file system is corrupted then reformat.
  • check disk manager, maybe it just needs a drive letter path [not plausible, just thinking out loud]
• Is it your primary disk? I'm guessing co'z you said "maybe OS corruption.
  • Can you run it on safe mode? try, then work on auto repair.
  • you can opt to mount it as secondary, then run the vendor's tool for checking the disk, or run chkdsk
• Note: WHEA error can be due to corrupt hardware or just driver compatibility issue.
  • Microsoft's advise is to run Windows update

Eugene said:

I did a sfc and chkdsk but it said couldn't fix all the errors but I can't even see it on my system. It only gets power. It was my primary hard drive with Windows 10 Home.

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