Dell Inspiron w Samsung PCIE Pro Internal SSD Won’t Boot …

Dell Inspiron w Samsung PCIE Pro Internal SSD Won’t Boot – HD or Win Prob? – posted in Windows 10 Support: I have Windows 10 22H2, 19045.6937 installed on a Dell Inspiron 3891 Desktop with a Samsung PCIe  Pro 990 M2. 2280 internal 1TB drive. All hardware is 4…

I have Windows 10 22H2, 19045.6937 installed on a Dell Inspiron 3891 Desktop with a Samsung PCIe  Pro 990 M2. 2280 internal 1TB drive. All hardware is 4 years and 1 month old and Windows came from Dell pre-installed on machine. It had been running fine without any further Windows updates. It has suddenly refused to boot and hangs on the Dell logo. PF12 diagnostics show the following message: I tried booting without any devices connected with no change in symptoms.

Attempting to repair the OS using a USB copy of Windows 10 from the media creation tool on MS web site just produces the message "unable to repair windows", apparently because it can't get to that drive. It is a 1 partition dr. with data and Windows on same partition. I haven't yet attempted to re-install Windows from that same USB drive. I tried resetting BIOS to original factory settings and that resulted in no change, I then flashed  BIOS back to the latest level again with no change.

I know that the SSD is NOT out of space as the msg indicates because I removed it and mounted it as a "guest" system on another Windows computer (running Win 11). It showed 555 GB used and 374GB free out of a total cap of 930GB.  Under disk mgmt on the Win 11 system, it showed "healthy" in all of the disk layout fields. I also ran "chkdsk /r" under command prompt on the drive and it found no errors.  I'm not sure what to make out of all of this.

I'm not firmly convinced that the problem is with the drive and not with windows. I have data backups but I prefer not to have to re-install Windows then all of my applications. I am thinking of just cloning the SSD to a new one (using a SATA SSD which I already have as an interim step) but don't want to buy a new Samsung internal SSD until I am more confident that it would fix this problem. One final point, I am concerned that an internal SSD of the Samsung quality only lasted me 4 years.

I don't use if for gaming but I do leave the system powered on and Windows loaded 24/7. Does anyone have any thoughts about what is happening here and the best way for me to proceed? Is the EASEUS diskcopy to clone to an identical SSD on SATA then to a new internal identical SSD worthwhile or would I just be copying an existing problem to a new drive? Thanks for the response. For some reason I am unable to post the screenshot directly into this reply but I have attached a .png file of it.  The good thing is that both the Real Only Attribute and the Read Only State is No.  With the Samsung attached to the other computer have you run Samsung's Magician software to check the SSD?

Edit: If Magician says the SSD is okay is it possible to disable SMART in the Dell BIOS?  It has suddenly refused to boot and hangs on the Dell logo. PF12 diagnostics show the following message: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but those Dell warnings indicate that your SSD has almost completely failed. There is no way to repair it. I appreciate that Diskpart and Disk Management, etc are reporting that everything's fine but they're just reading the file structure and metadata etc.

They know nothing about the physical state of the SSD's hardware. Diskpart's zero-bytes free is also significant. Do your best to copy your data to another drive. Start with the most important stuff because the drive could fail completely. … you can confirm (or possibly disprove) Secret-Squirrel's diagnosis by connecting the drive to another computer, and running CrystalDiskInfo to chek its SMART status.

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ The Samsung is telling the Dell that it's shagged and is now in read-only mode. I don't how to tell the Dell otherwise – or if that's even wise.

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