Hard Drive Failure Warning - Must Disable in BIOS to Get in Windows

spunk said:

Your 4TB has probably failed which keeps Windows from booting.

Really? Even if I can see and access all of its contents when using Win10PE? (as shown in my "screen" shot)

spunk said:

The health of the drive is probably in jeopardy. I would copy the data, and run Diagnostics from different Windows PE drive or on another computer via a USB Adapter

OK thanks - speaking of copying the data ...my backup prior to crash was probably 98% up-to-date.
I'd like to finish the job while inside Win10PE. I tried to run the portable version of FreeFileSync (which has been my solution for years) but I keep getting a popup saying error because installation files are missing. I notice that Bob Ombs had a bunch of programs included on the ISO and I thought it would be just a matter of adding FreeFileSync (portable) in the Programs folder with the rest and running the executable. Is there something else I need to do for a program to work in WinPE?

The WinPE runs on a RAM disk. As soon as you shutdown or reboot any changes will be gone.
You can download Seatools and save it to your USB drive.
Boot from the WinPE, browse to the Seatools and run it.

One possibility to get at data files: run Reflect off the USB stick and create an image of the suspect drive on one of the others (if there is room!), then boot Windows with duff drive disabled, open the the image file as a drive and run your backup on that. May be slow.

Megahertz said:

The WinPE runs on a RAM disk. As soon as you shutdown or reboot any changes will be gone.
You can download Seatools and save it to your USB drive.
Boot from the WinPE, browse to the Seatools and run it.

Thanks for the tip. After seeing the results on this drive (SMART Fail, Short DST Fail), I've decided to cut my losses.
I was able to manually transfer what was missing on my backup. Will be wiping all data, removing from the PC tower, and bringing to BestBuy for recycling.



Thank you to everyone who assisted!

Hi,

A nice WDBlack, If the drive is not very old you can check if you could not RMA it.

Warranty Status | WD Support

MaloK said:

Hi, A nice WDBlack, If the drive is not very old you can check if you could not RMA it.Warranty Status | WD Support

Thanks MaloK! Manufactured 2014. Likely no longer under warranty!

I'm a complete dummy. I didn't recall even posting about that #6... Oh well