So recently I tore down my PC and was waiting for water-cooling parts to come in. Everything came in yesterday and I put back together my PC. I boot into windows and everything seemed fine until I opened up explorer to go look for something. For some reason my drives weren't appearing, Windows acted like it was looking but it just sat there and wouldn't pop any drives up. I close explorer and reopened it and now it wouldn't show anything at all and it says it's not responding. I rebooted my PC and now I can't get back into windows, it just sits there on the boot screen forever.
So I decided to try and reinstall Windows via my USB stick. It will boot into the installer but it takes AGES. Once I'm in and click the INSTALL button it takes AGES AGAIN. Eventually I got Windows installed again but ran into the same problem. I get into windows, I freezes up and now I can't boot back into it..
What the fuck is going on with my PC? It's not my drives because even booting into the windows installer is slow...
Wow, so throughout all this my extra hdd that had important shit on it got randomly wiped.. WHAT THE FUCK
Are you able to get into Windows currently? You said you weren't able to get into it at the time due to freezes but I'm wondering if you were able to get back in since then.
If so, can you post a Speccy screenshot?
Also are there any errors showing up in Event Viewer? (Win+R -> eventvwr.exe -> System under Windows Logs).
Are you getting any blue screens after the freezes? If so then posting the core dumps would also be useful. Any SMART warnings or info would be good as well if you got any.
It sounds like a hardware issue at first glance. Bad drives will disappear from the listing in explorer. Sometimes running a simple disk check will resolve the problem but if it's a bad drive then it's dead plain and simple. A bad drive can mess up an entire windows installation even if the bad drive doesn't hold the windows installation itself (speaking from experience).
If possible I'd also recommend trying one drive at a time (unhooking all other drives), letting the disk checks run, and seeing if you can identify which drive is bad, if any.
Speccy won't even analyze, it just sits there. As for event viewer I'm seeing a lot of errors about disk and a couple related to ahci.
Can you post the messages of the ahci errors and one or two of the disk errors as well?
Idk if this is an issue with my mobo or all my drives are bad. The HDD is still pretty new and so is the Toshiba SSD. The only drives I haven't tried installing Windows on is my HDD and my second ocz drive
Judging from the errors in Event Viewer and Speccy's evaluation it seems your HDD is failing (or, in this case, has already failed it seems). Can you post a screenshot of the Speccy page for the HDD under the storage tab? Should look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/DtBxjXh.png
Nvm it's my SSD, not my HDD, derp,
https://i.imgur.com/5bx7Q8B.jpg
If it's the SSD we'll need to use manufacturer specific software.
Here's Toshiba's OCZ SSD health monitor tool:
https://ssd.toshiba-memory.com/en-amer/download/ssd-utility
Download this, run it, check the health, and see what it reports.
Okay, I'm at work atm, once I get back home I'll test it. Thing is btw, I installed on my other SSD and ran into the same issues although idk if I got the same errors with event viewer, never checked at the time..
Like I mentioned earlier (although I dashed it out), a bad drive can mess up an installation regardless of if it has the OS on it or not.
I had a secondary drive fail on me that caused all sorts of problems (blue screens, freezes, etc.) and simply removing it from the computer fixed everything.
If the drive comes up as healthy my next guess is it's a MOBO issue that's more complex.
For now I'll only keep one drive plugged in at a time and install Windows on each and see what happens
Ok so I ran the health tool on my ocz and SanDisk drive. Both my 2 ocz and my SanDisk ssds are fine. I unplugged my HDD, and everything is back to normal.
Yeah, that sucks. Might see if it's under warranty, either through the manufacturer or the store you bought it from? Otherwise you might be SOL unfortunately.
If the drive failed yeah I wouldn't really bother trying to mess with the partitions on it. Best case scenario you can use a tool to access the content on the drive but odds are slim to none if it was being reported empty.
Glad it seems to have worked itself out though, hopefully they'll be able to spot you a new one free of charge if it was a recent purchase by RMA'ing it or something.
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