Ben Zanin
The Intel 5 SSD holding Win10 system drive on my gaming box went bad at the hardware level, apparently.
I discovered the symptom two weeks back during the 1709 update when it failed to complete and failed to roll back, then dug up enough evidence to reach that fault conclusion after a few reluctant investigation sessions.
Yesterday I caved and bought a replacement SSD of sufficiently antique vintage for this machine, again reluctantly. I don't want to install Windows again.
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Ben Zanin
I finally got around to it.
Unwired the I/O loom behind my rig, yanked out the failed Intel SSD, shoved in the replacement 850 Pro (yes, I got the tail end of the prior generation), dug out my installation DVD (USB UEFI boot issues on my old board - don't ask), reinstalled Win 10, sat through about an hour or two of updates, salvaged what files I could (most, actually), then rebuilt my working environment.
That was a really unpleasant process, but the result... Man, I'm happy.
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