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That's why I primarily use Linux... (lemmy.cif.su)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

OK, just to clarify a few things, because a lot of people are being smartasses here in the comments:

  1. It's a relatively new (1-2 Months old) Samsung NVME drive.
  2. I do NOT hold to power button or pull the plug on this machine EVER.
  3. The drive is in prestine conditions. Not a single bad sector. Use the same drive DAILY on Linux and disk utility reports no bad sectors.

So stop talking nonsense if you don't know what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a hardware issue, no OS can fix this.

[–] kboy101222 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what happens when a hard drive fails at some point in the boot. It isn't a windows issue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's an SSD but OK...

[–] kboy101222 1 points 21 hours ago

Same difference in this case. If the drive is detected to have failed in some way, this is what windows runs at boot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

ETA: we'll get there when we get there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "fix" once moved my entire windows folder into some kind of lost and found bin. It was years ago so I don't remember the details. I had to move the files back by recovery command prompt. At least IT gave me the bitlocker key. That whole process sucked

[–] the_crotch 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It didn't move anything. The filesystem got corrupted and that directory was erroneously marked as unused space, which is probably why you were running chkdsk in the first place. Lost and found is the correct place to put files recovered this way because chkdsk doesn't know where they're supposed to go. Fsck does the same thing and in fact lost+found is a default directory on most (all?) unices

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Windows was able to boot for a week, prompting me every time, until I didn't manage to skip it one day. Then it bricked itself

[–] the_crotch 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it tried to warn you that the filesystem was fucky and you ignored it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It failed to fix itself. Yes, I "ignored" it for a few days as I had no time to sit for it to check the drive - when I was ignoring the prompt it was still working. It would have broken itself earlier, and I would have been even more screwed. And no policies for backup were allowed by IT, other than a couple files on OneDrive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Windows 11 on an IDE drive. You love to see it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's actually on a SSD but ok... A NVME to be exact

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Twas but a joke sir

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It will take as long as it takes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You noticed the 1578%, right?