Dead SSD, reinstalled Windows 10 on Hard Disk Drive and getting Blue Screen of Death.

Hey everyone!

So, about a month and a half ago, my system totally crapped out on me. I checked the BIOS and noticed SATA 0 was showing up as 0 GB, while SATA 1 was reading fine at 2000 GB. Then yesterday, the system crashed again—I was just staring at a blank screen because I had to manually reclaim ownership of my C: drive. Fast forward to today: I decided to wipe everything and reinstall Windows, grabbed the motherboard and Wi-Fi drivers, and then went to grab my GPU drivers. But apparently, I needed an April update first, so I started that process. After sitting there downloading for four straight hours, I got hit with a BSoD called Critical Failure... only this time, it was happening on my Hard Disk Drive.

So, what was the author actually getting at here? ☕

Bryan Hall said:Hey there!

About a month and a half ago, my system crashed and when I checked the BIOS, SATA 0 was showing 0 GB while SATA 1 showed 2000 GB. Then yesterday, the system tanked again—I kept getting a blank screen until I finally managed to restore myself as the owner of the C: drive. So, today I decided to reinstall Windows and grab the motherboard and Wi-Fi drivers. I also needed an April update just to be able to download the GPU drivers, so I started on that... but after four hours of downloading, I hit a Blue Screen of Death labeled Critical Failure. This time, though, it was happening on the HDD.

You should probably download CrystalDiskInfo to check the health of the drive, but honestly? Based on that error message you got, it sounds like your hard disk is pretty much toast.

The HDD is doing just fine—everything seems totally normal there—but when I jumped into Disk Management, I saw that my SSD is definitely being recognized, yet it’s reporting only 20 MB of free space.
Basically, what I’m trying to get at is, what the hell is going on with this PC? I just picked it up about a year ago, and the specs are an GTX 1050Ti paired with an i5-7400 and 8GB of DDR4.