unborn tapir
I think I screwed myself over and might've corrupted one of my ssd's.
Context: tried to install a game through Epic but the launcher kept verifying it over and over. I tried to cancel it but it wouldn't stop. So i force closed Epic Games and tried to delete the game folder to retry the install. It wouldn't allow it to be deleted bc it said it was still in use. So I forced a restart (while it was deleting, (Pretty dumb ik)
The entire system got stuck in a boot loop stopping on a text prompt saying "Preparing automatic repair" it kept repeating this until I removed the ssd that I had attempted to delete files off of. Also windows tried to install an update halfway through this but failed.
Now I can load into windows but the "corrupt" ssd doesn't work. It shows up in file explorer with a driver letter E: and nothing else. No capacity, and no name. I also sometimes get an error: "E:/ The directory name is invalid."
File explorer freezes when I try to write new data to any of the other drives on my system. Even just creating a folder freezes it until I unplug the ssd.
I'm able to recover files with DMDE, but was wondering if there's anything else I can do to try and get it back. Or if its even possible to reformat the ssd at all since I can't even access it or any settings for it.
Any help with this would REALLY be appreciated.
If you need any more info or screenshots of the errors lmk.