I recently experienced two different BSODs (Blue Screen of Death) on my laptop. The first one said 'DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE', and after my laptop restarted, I was left with a dark screen saying that no operating system was found on the hard disk. I have both an SSD and an HDD; the OS is installed on the SSD. I managed to boot from the SSD via the Windows Recovery Environment, and it's working fine now. It's just puzzling because I've never had issues booting from the SSD before.
Then I got a second BSOD that said 'UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION', but my laptop booted up fine afterwards, unlike the first BSOD. When researching this error, I found that it might have something to do with drive or storage issues. In the Task Manager, I saw SSD RAID and HDD RAID, terms I don't recall seeing before. I've never set my drives up with RAID, so I'm wondering how it might have changed to RAID and if that's okay. Can I 'un-RAID' it, or is RAID something that's generally fine?
For context, I recently uninstalled several apps and deleted a lot of files. My laptop originally came with an HDD, and the SSD was added almost a year ago. I formatted the HDD and installed a clean OS on the SSD instead of mirroring it because I wanted to start fresh and only keep a few files from the HDD.
2 Answers
It sounds like the second BSOD you encountered relates to storage issues, but don't stress too much about the RAID message you're seeing in Task Manager. It's possible that something might have changed when you adjusted the boot settings, but RAID in this context usually refers just to the drive configuration options in BIOS, not necessarily that you are actively using RAID. If your drives don’t seem to be having performance issues, you’re likely fine! But if you're concerned about the RAID setting, you can usually check or modify it in your BIOS.
To properly diagnose the BSODs, you'll want to take a look at the dump files, which are crash logs generated during the errors. If you can access Windows, check the C:WindowsMinidump folder for these files. Zip up any files you find and upload them to a file sharing site for analysis. This will help pinpoint the issue better. Here's a guide on configuring minidumps for future reference: [link]. If you find none, that's fine; just make sure to follow the guide to enable better error logging in the future.
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