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Hi, I have a windows desktop with 2 disks, one ssd and one hdd and windows is installed in the ssd. This morning I started the pc as usually and it was stuck with the ASUS logo on screen and the spinning animation of windows. I left it alone for 1h but nothing changed. So I tried fixing with a bootable USB but when I started the usb from the bios I got the same behaviour: spinning wheel with the ASUS logo. So I tried booting the USB but I removed the ssd drive, and the USB booted successfully. Now I have formatted the HDD and installed windows in it because I hoped that I could copy the files from the ssd to a usb using the working windows installation on HDD. The hdd installation was working normally so I decided to try to connect the ssd. I connected the ssd and booted selecting the hdd as boot device but the same I got behaviour.
How can I fix this error?
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I was able to boot Ubuntu from usb with the SSD connected, I run ntfsfix but it said that I need to run chkdsk on it. How can I run chkdsk if I am not able to boot to windows with it connected? I tried also booting without the SSD and then plugging it back, but it does not get recognized.
It could have failed.
If you can't connect it and have the PC boot to windows the only other option to test it is an external USB enclosure.
I remember defragging it last evening. Is there any other method to try before trying with the ssd to ubs method?
It could have failed.
If you can't connect it and have the PC boot to windows the only other option to test it is an external USB enclosure.
If with the SSD the boot gets stuck and without it connected it boots okay then it would suggest an SSD failure. How old is the SSD?
as old as the HDD, probably 3 or 4 years.
If with the SSD the boot gets stuck and without it connected it boots okay then it would suggest an SSD failure. How old is the SSD?
