Hey everyone, I'm the go-to tech person in my family, but I'm totally stumped right now. I was playing FFVII and suddenly, my PC rebooted like I had hit the reset button. Now, when I try to boot up, I get a message saying "Reboot and select a proper boot device." I checked the BIOS and my Crucial P3 1TB M.2 drive is detected, but it won't boot.
I tried using a recovery drive and saw the M.2 listed in Disk Part, but I couldn't clean or repair it, which might be due to my limited knowledge. I've had unreliable experiences with M.2 drives before, especially with internal enclosures. I tried reinserting the drive and even using it in my partner's PC but it won't boot there either. It's readable once I turn it "online" in Windows settings, but appears in read-only mode with a 98% health status. I attempted to remove the read-only attribute via cmd, but no luck. While I checked for errors, it found some but no detailed log, and attempts to repair it (both chkdsk and Windows recovery) have failed. I'm really at my wits' end and could use some solid advice. Crucial's support doesn't open until Monday.
Edit: I just booted into GParted Live and it threw an "error fsyncing/closing /dev/nvme0n1p1: Input/output error". Any help would be appreciated!
2 Answers
First off, make sure you back up any important data from the M.2 drive if you haven't already! Sounds like there could be some serious corruption happening. A CHKDSK recovery might help, but if that doesn't work, formatting the drive could be necessary, though I know it's tricky when it seems unresponsive.
If CHKDSK isn’t recognizing the M.2, you may need to use GParted or a similar tool to format it. Sometimes a low-level format can help recover it.
You might want to try booting into Safe Mode to see if you can access your files and gather any dump files for analysis. They’re stored in C:WindowsMinidump. If you find any, zip them up and upload to a file-sharing site—this could help diagnose your issue even further. Just a suggestion!
I've already backed up everything crucial to my partner's PC, but I'm not sure how to go about formatting the M.2 since tools seem to prevent me from doing that. Any tips?