Help! My pc crashed and windows won't boot
Posted by braddersladders@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Was downloading a game on steam when the download suddenly stopped and said "corrupt disk". I then clicked on some repair setting in steam and it froze and blue screened and now my pc only boots to bios.
Now in bios I can't remember if my pc was set to UEFI or CSM before the crash but post crash my SSD does not show in the boot order in UEFI, so it just keeps booting to bios.
It does show in CSM and I set it first in boot order but when I reboot my pc still only loads text saying "reboot and select proper boot device"
Looking for any help before I assume I'm forced to just do a clean windows install. It's not the end of the world but if I can fix it before resorting to that , that would be great .
I've posted on r/msi_gaming with photos or the bios screen showing my SSD not appearing on UEFI but appearing on CSM if anyone needs to see that it's on my profile
blami@reddit
Your ssd/nvme probably died. They die like this all of sudden (so its good idea to have SMART software to monitor).
braddersladders@reddit (OP)
Couple of questions:
Even though the bios is recognising my SSD under storage and in the CSM boot order it might be dead?
What's SMART?
blami@reddit
Yeah usually controller survives but the actual memory dies. So when bios tries to boot from it it gets hw errors and ends up unable to use disk at all.
SMART is protocol used by all disk manufacturers to report telemetry incl ssd health. There are plenty of tools to read it from drive and e.g. alarm on it.
braddersladders@reddit (OP)
Thanks 👍
SandsofFlowingTime@reddit
It's even more fun when SMART dies first and doesn't warn you. That's what happened to one of my drives. SMART reported it as healthy, then the next day it was dead
blami@reddit
Yeah I had same experience with Samsung 990 ones. Really the only way out is to backup to NAS, Backblaze or something like that. Spinning drives died gradually…
SandsofFlowingTime@reddit
Spinning drives at least make a sound as they die which tells you to act quickly
blami@reddit
Don’t give em too much ideas. Next gen nvmes might come with buzzer making clickety click sound if wear level goes too high lol
SandsofFlowingTime@reddit
That would be better than just waking up one day to find out your drive died. But even then it is software monitoring and that can fail. Hard drives are physical monitoring, and it sounds awful when it starts to fail
blami@reddit
Honestly I think at level of ssd adoption in consumer level devices SMART check should be part of either bare OS or even bios at post
SandsofFlowingTime@reddit
True, it really should be. One of my drives (might have been the one that died) was from 2016 and was my old OS drive. SMART claimed it only had like 200 power on hours. I am not an expert, but I don't think 200 hours is accurate