So I was playing some games when power was suddenly cut. It came back within a few seconds, but it was enough for the computer to shut down. When starting the computer again, I just got a blue screen with some error about boot configuration data missing:
I booted from a Win10 flash drive to try and repair the system.
The Automatic Repair failed. I then tried several fixes I found on Google, like rebuilding the BCD using Bootrec, however I just kept getting various error messages about missing system drives etc.
Fortunately I had a backup from just ~6 hours earlier so I booted the EaseUS recovery disc and restored from backup. After restoring, which took another several hours, the system finally booted.
Pretty sure this had to do with Samsung RAPID being enabled, since it's essentially a large RAM cache. I don't quite understand how that could ruin the BCD since the system shouldn't have been touching those files when just running games, but somehow it did.
I'm going to disable that now. It's not worth the risk of data loss and downtime for a performance boost that's really only noticeable in benchmarks. Samsung should warn users to only enable it if they have a UPS. Even then, I think a BSOD might cause the same error since that's almost the same as cutting power.
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The Boot configuration data for your PC is missing or contains errors.
File:\Boot\BCD
Error code: 0x000014c
I booted from a Win10 flash drive to try and repair the system.
The Automatic Repair failed. I then tried several fixes I found on Google, like rebuilding the BCD using Bootrec, however I just kept getting various error messages about missing system drives etc.
Fortunately I had a backup from just ~6 hours earlier so I booted the EaseUS recovery disc and restored from backup. After restoring, which took another several hours, the system finally booted.
Pretty sure this had to do with Samsung RAPID being enabled, since it's essentially a large RAM cache. I don't quite understand how that could ruin the BCD since the system shouldn't have been touching those files when just running games, but somehow it did.
I'm going to disable that now. It's not worth the risk of data loss and downtime for a performance boost that's really only noticeable in benchmarks. Samsung should warn users to only enable it if they have a UPS. Even then, I think a BSOD might cause the same error since that's almost the same as cutting power.
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