Windows unable to boot - Automatic Repair loop - SSD corrupt?

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Ben Stratford

Hi,


I have a 120gb Kingston SSD in my secondary PC running Windows 10. The SSD was the boot drive until recently. Fine one evening then the next day stuck in an Automatic Repair loop, resulting in a black screen even after hours of waiting.


I think the SSD may have become corrupted and now completely unusable but I'd like to air it here in case anymore has some suggestions. I believe the SSD only had the OS on; the libraries were pointed at another drive and so should be safe on the other drive, so data loss is minimal.


I've tried booting from a Windows Media USB to repair Windows however whenever I try to do this with the SSD connected, it never loads the Windows installation screen despite booting from the USB. I've confirmed this by making the SATA ports hot-pluggable and booting with the SSD disconnected (to confirm it definitely isn't booting from the SSD, or trying to). With the SSD disconnected, I can see and use the Windows installation screen from the USB.

I click "Repair Computer" and then connect the SSD but cannot do anything to repair or reinstall Windows on the SSD. After connecting the SSD, I can open CMD and see the drive connected by entering "fsutil fsinfo drives" but cannot change the directory to the SSD to run DiskPart to format the drive. I also can't run "dir list" on the SSD drive either.


I also can't launch Startup Repair after connecting the SSD as it just hangs.


As a last resort, I connected the SSD to my primary PC, enabling SATA hot-plugging and connecting it after booting to Windows on this PC - to try and browse to the drive in either Explorer or CMD to view the files on the drive, potentially salvaging any files required and then formatting the drive. However, after connecting the SSD it slows my primary system to a halt - I don't know if this is because the SSD was a boot device and this clashes with my C:\ drive on my primary system.


Any other suggestions to potentially save the SSD or at least view the files/folders on it to confirm there is nothing important that I need from it? Does it sound like the SSD is corrupt?


Thanks,

Ben

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