Windows 10 Upgrade broke my Samsung 850 Pro SSD?

[50]

Hello,

I recently upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I followed the standard Windows upgrade procedure and left the machine to upgrade. When I got back, I got UEFI boot error and could not boot back into Windows. My SSD doesn't show up in the UEFI manager. I've tried two USB3.0->Sata adapters and neither recognize my drive in Windows or uBuntu. I also tried a USB2.0->Sata adapter and no luck either in Windows or ubuntu.

Does anyone have any other ideas how I might be able to salvage my data? SSD is <6 months old and was never stressed with read/writes.

 

[RadicalMind]

Try plugging the SSD in another computer. see if it recognizes it. If it does the SSD is obviously fine... Sounds like the upgrade from win8 to 10 might have corrupted the boot sector

 

[Ketchup]

... SSD is <6 months old and was never stressed with read/writes.

If there was a problem with the drive from the factory, a Windows 10 install would be the way to make it show, vs 6 months of light reads/rites. Sure it survived the initial install, but your were installing off a Flash drive/DVD, not an image on the same drive.

But yes, see if another computer will read the drive.

 

[50]

Sorry should've been more clear. The USB2.0/3.0 to SATA adapters were on a separate computer running Windows and also tried it in ubuntu. Any other ideas?

 

[50]

Anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

 

[Ketchup]

Plug it in DIRECTLY to SATA ports on another machine and see if it sees anything.

Contact Samsung about warranty replacement.

 

[yhelothar]

Did you check disk manager to see if the operating system detected the drive despite not assigning it a drive letter for it to show up in explorer? Type in computer management in the search.

If it's not there, see if a disk recovery program can detect the drive. They can often pick up drives that the operating system won't detect. One I've hand phenomenal success with is GetDataBack for NTFS.

After you get your data off, perhaps you could format and do a clean install. Although this suggestion is a noob fix, ideally you can find a better solution to just fix the boot issue.

Perhaps you could boot from the windows setup and select repair and there's an option for a command prompt. Type bootrec.exe /fixmbr and subsequently bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force

 

[Puffnstuff]

Windows 10 isn't the culprit and you should change the misleading thread title. When it fails to show in bios it has most likely gone into panic mode and requires rma to Samsung. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/supportServiceWarrantySSDODDExchange.do