I just built a pc, booted fine, used my usb drive to install windows worked fine. I only have a 500 gigabyte samsung 960 evo nvme drive. I took the wifi card from my old computer and put it in this one. I wanted to put install the driver for the wifi card so i took out my opitical drive out of my old computer, and plugged in the wires but since there was no place to install it, I used the optical drive while it was hanging outside of the case (both side panels were off). I installed the driver which didn’t work and after doing this my pc had lag and ran slower. So I tried to boot from my usb windows media tool, and tried to download windows again to try and delete files, as it was downloading windows 10 again, I wanted to try something else, and cancelled mid download. Now the ssd gives a corrupt error message, I am planning on wiping the ssd and just downloading windows again, but I am worried that somehow something damaged my other hardware, I am sure that I am fine but I am worried. So I am wondering was the lag from the ssd being weird or other components getting damaged. I know this is a long weird one so thank you for the help in advance. Oh and what is the best way to wipe an nvme ssd?
Question about wiping an ssd and something about my hardware thanks
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If you installed wrong driver and it causes problems, to resolve this you just have to
either uninstall problematic driver or
use system restore to restore system to time before driver was installed.
There was no need to download windows installation again, cancel process in the middle and corrupt your drive.
Oh well. If you have corrupted it already, then
either uninstall problematic driver or
use system restore to restore system to time before driver was installed.
There was no need to download windows installation again, cancel process in the middle and corrupt your drive.
Oh well. If you have corrupted it already, then
- boot from windows install media,
use diskpart to clean your drive,
install windows normally.
Well either you installed something bad, tried to hot-plug DVD, which is not hot-plugable (remember to turn off power to PSU before doing anything to cables INSIDE the case), or driver was so old, that windows 10 commited harakiri. It would be very unusual if anything you did could damage the hardware. You would need to have bare non-isolated cable and touch gpu or something else. (99% its all fine). Download linux live pendrive and boot from it, check some hardware check tools of your choice.
If it works, you might have damaged windows while it was "UPDATING".
remove all partitions and allow windows to create them while installing OS. its safest and fast version of "wipe"
If it works, you might have damaged windows while it was "UPDATING".
remove all partitions and allow windows to create them while installing OS. its safest and fast version of "wipe"
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