Cannot do anything on SSD. It keeps coming back to some kind of "Restore point"
Yesterday (Monday) I returned to work and strangely my PC was inside the BIOS (I left it on on Friday when leaving). I continued using it normally without giving it more notice, but it turns out that there was a time when I had to restart, and when loading again, everything was like at the beginning of the morning. Just to check, I tried to uninstall some programs and delete some files, and when restarting, everything was still there.
After a few more tests. I tried to transfer files to another hard drive, as a previous step to reinstall Windows, since the solutions I tried did not work, and after several blue screens, I managed to pass the files and restarted the PC with a Windows 10 Bootable USB .
I install Windows normally, the computer restarts and surprise!, everything remains the same as Monday morning.
After that, I tried to clean the disk with DISKPART, Hirens Boot Utilities and other similar tools and the disk always returns to the same point. Sometimes this processes fails, and sometimes it tells me that everything went OK, but the result was always the same
I am really lost with this problem, the disk does not appear as "Read Only" nor does it show any indication of failure. It is an M2 SSD "Kingston SSDNow A1000 960GB", bought at the beginning of June and had not given me any problems.
Anyone know any way to erase the hard drive completely or a reason why this happens?
Maybe it is a hardware defect, but I would like to try everything before processing the warranty. Besides that I would not like to send this hard drive anywhere, since the OS has no password, and may contain sensitive data.
You can try the Kingston SSD Manager.
This utility can help with the following useful operations:
- Monitor drive health, status, and disk usage
- View and export detailed drive health and status reports
- Update drive firmware
- Securely erase data
The information this utility can make available may help to diagnose the problem, and it may also be able to erase the disk.
If the Kingston utility cannot help with the disk, then the disk is dead or seriously dying.