Sudden BSOD, hard drive and SSD, temporarily invisible

MaloK said:

Loll, from your screen shots your logical drives are adding up to expected size. But how this could occurred is beyond my understanding.

But... Since the drive is dynamic.

You could maybe have merged two partitions, I never tried such operations.

At the moment your boot files are residing on your logically flawed "dynamic" disk. You can revert from it to Basic disk but it have a chance to fail.

That is why I suggested a clean install with only your SSD installed before adding any data drives...

In you case the data drive should also be cleaned and reinitialized properly before use.

Oh. Actually I already spent close to 16-18 hours since 1st July before trying to battle a BSOD that resulted in me doing a clean windows installation and spending another 6-7 hours installing all software from scratch and doing various customizations from 3rd July onwards.

Isn't there any method to resolve this trouble just by repairing or re-configuring some files without doing a long process of formatting and re-copying data?

- - - Updated - - -

SIW2 said:

It is more usual to span across different disks.
Third party partitioners can often merge partitions , but I am not sure how many will do it with dynamic disks.
Aomei partition assistant has something called dynamic disk manager which comes with pro version, I have never used it, but it might be able to do that. It might then be able to convert the disk.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...6-9a90457bb4e4

I don't understand. What exactly should I do with the AEOMEI partition assistant to resolve this occasional BSOD?

- - - Updated - - -

bratkinson said:

Memtest86 is what I used 4 years ago while trying to figure out why my computer would randomly freeze for a minute or two, then pick up where it left off like nothing happened. It showed me, even with tests that ran several hours, that my RAM was OK.

So what software do you suggest?

bratkinson said:

Looking at your latest post, I noticed that your SSD boot drive is not in the drive 0 slot. I know that should be OK but I've never dealt with it before. Double check the 'boot sequence' settings in BIOS to unconditionally force drive 0 to be the first boot drive. Letting BIOS figure it out for itself might be why you got the 'no bootable drive' BSOD.

I checked in BIOS, my HDD is listed as the only option boot.

I am no friend of Windows Boot Manager. I had to fight it for a couple days just to be able to fix a friends' all-in-one HP computer. You should be able to specifically change it to show individual drives. First the SSD, then HD. When I have to boot from a USB or CD drive such as using the WIndows disk, I'll change the order to put the that drive first, then change it back when I'm done.

Yes, Memtest86 is what I'd recommend.

bratkinson said:

When I have to boot from a USB or CD drive such as using the WIndows disk, I'll change the order to put the that drive first, then change it back when I'm done.

Yes. The bootable USB shows up in the BIOS when I'm trying to boot from it. I change the priority to USB so that I can proceed accordingly.

bratkinson said:

When I have to boot from a USB or CD drive such as using the WIndows disk, I'll change the order to put the that drive first, then change it back when I'm done.
Yes, Memtest86 is what I'd recommend.

Okay. I'll use it and post my results.

Just finished running memtest tests from bootable USB created through memtest tools. Zero errors found. Sharing the report as html file in a zip.

MemTest86-Report-20220721-192614.zip

I ran tests today using Seagate SeaTools Bootable USB. My SSD drive and SATA drive passed the tests. Attaching them as zip.




LOGS FROM SEATOOLS TEST.zip

Few minutes ago, today again, I faced the WHEA BSOD screen again. The screen remained stuck at 0 percent for more than 20 minutes. After that I forced shut down my laptop using the power button after which it booted normally.




I googled for this issue and learnt about memory.dmp file.




I checked my "c:\windows" folder and found a .dmp file that got created few minutes ago. I have uploaded it as a zip file on a wetransfer link .
WeTransfer - Send Large Files & Share Photos Online - Up to 2GB Free




Also enclosing the logs generated by v2 log collector app.
crash logs_DESKTOP-O3JEF2D-(2022-07-27_17-29-34).zip