Ark may have bricked my SSD by filling up half of it

[Andminus]

So I have a custom computer, but this computer had a 480gb SSD, so not a lot of space. Been wanting to get back into Ark, so after uninstalling 90% of my other games I managed to have JUST enough space on it to install it+10gb left. I go to install it overnight while I slept, but when I wake up, I get some weird error and am unable to boot my Desktop anymore. Getting a DOS screen with "Media test failure, check cables".

Am currently on a secondary laptop typing this; and looking up answers on the allmighty youtube, this issue is usually anything from wires disconnecting or the drive becoming corrupted which sounds kinda bad, but considering I just filled up nearly the entire drive with a 250~GB install does seem more likely I corrupted the hard drive as oppose to a wire that hasn't been moved or knocked into or whatever being misaligned(I could maybe believe if a wire got fried)

I'm able to run the UEFI but if I don't load into the ez mode, it will give me the error, and I can't get the boot options to run, coming back to the media test failure screen. Is there a way to revert changes or am I stuck?

[retsam1]

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So I have a custom computer, but this computer had a 480gb SSD, so not a lot of space. Been wanting to get back into Ark, so after uninstalling 90% of my other games I managed to have JUST enough space on it to install it+10gb left. I go to install it overnight while I slept, but when I wake up, I get some weird error and am unable to boot my Desktop anymore. Getting a DOS screen with "Media test failure, check cables".

Am currently on a secondary laptop typing this; and looking up answers on the allmighty youtube, this issue is usually anything from wires disconnecting or the drive becoming corrupted which sounds kinda bad, but considering I just filled up nearly the entire drive with a 250~GB install does seem more likely I corrupted the hard drive as oppose to a wire that hasn't been moved or knocked into or whatever being misaligned(I could maybe believe if a wire got fried)

I'm able to run the UEFI but if I don't load into the ez mode, it will give me the error, and I can't get the boot options to run, coming back to the media test failure screen. Is there a way to revert changes or am I stuck?

Game didn't brick your ssd. While ark is a demanding game, think on it as a canary in the coal mine to expose issues with hardware.

[Andminus]

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Game didn't brick your ssd. While ark is a demanding game, think on it as a canary in the coal mine to expose issues with hardware.

I mean, I think filling up the entire SSD save maybe 10gbs, probably messed up the hardware, as it usually gives a warning to free up space when the available space becomes really low well before that. I'm not blaming Ark in any way, just wondering how badly I messed up by trying to install something that takes up so much of an SSDs existing remaining space. Do I need a new SSD? or just replace wires, is there a way to revert this issue, especially from the UEFI mode.

[zerassar]

Boot into windows recovery mode and use the command line to browse the disk.
Can browse the disk ok? Then the disk isnt bricked/broken.

[Tachyon]

How on earth do you play games on such a tiny SSD? What did you "custom" the PC for exactly?

[Furyion]

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So I have a custom computer, but this computer had a 480gb SSD, so not a lot of space. Been wanting to get back into Ark, so after uninstalling 90% of my other games I managed to have JUST enough space on it to install it+10gb left. I go to install it overnight while I slept, but when I wake up, I get some weird error and am unable to boot my Desktop anymore. Getting a DOS screen with "Media test failure, check cables".

Am currently on a secondary laptop typing this; and looking up answers on the allmighty youtube, this issue is usually anything from wires disconnecting or the drive becoming corrupted which sounds kinda bad, but considering I just filled up nearly the entire drive with a 250~GB install does seem more likely I corrupted the hard drive as oppose to a wire that hasn't been moved or knocked into or whatever being misaligned(I could maybe believe if a wire got fried)

I'm able to run the UEFI but if I don't load into the ez mode, it will give me the error, and I can't get the boot options to run, coming back to the media test failure screen. Is there a way to revert changes or am I stuck?

Game didn't brick your ssd. While ark is a demanding game, think on it as a canary in the coal mine to expose issues with hardware.

bloated files say other.mismanaged ..end.

[Andminus]

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Boot into windows recovery mode and use the command line to browse the disk.
Can browse the disk ok? Then the disk isnt bricked/broken.

seems I can't do this, so I might of bricked it, all the methods google claims for loading into recovery mode from start up don't seem to work and it just ends up going into the DOS "Media test failure" screen.

My options seem to be Del or F2 to enter UEFI Settings

and a moment later Shift-F10 to configure something else.

In the UEFI settings, I do appear to be missing some extra boot options that iirc were there before, I had 3-4, while now I only have 2.

[zerassar]

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Boot into windows recovery mode and use the command line to browse the disk.
Can browse the disk ok? Then the disk isnt bricked/broken.

seems I can't do this, so I might of bricked it, all the methods google claims for loading into recovery mode from start up don't seem to work and it just ends up going into the DOS "Media test failure" screen.

My options seem to be Del or F2 to enter UEFI Settings

and a moment later Shift-F10 to configure something else.

In the UEFI settings, I do appear to be missing some extra boot options that iirc were there before, I had 3-4, while now I only have 2.

If built in recovery doesnt work... Make a bootable USB/DVD and boot off of that.
If its simply a case that the drive is too full... Then you can use that bootable media to browse the local disk and manually delete the ark folder.
Then try to boot again normally.

[Andminus]

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seems I can't do this, so I might of bricked it, all the methods google claims for loading into recovery mode from start up don't seem to work and it just ends up going into the DOS "Media test failure" screen.

My options seem to be Del or F2 to enter UEFI Settings

and a moment later Shift-F10 to configure something else.

In the UEFI settings, I do appear to be missing some extra boot options that iirc were there before, I had 3-4, while now I only have 2.

If built in recovery doesnt work... Make a bootable USB/DVD and boot off of that.
If its simply a case that the drive is too full... Then you can use that bootable media to browse the local disk and manually delete the ark folder.
Then try to boot again normally.

I'm... not sure how to do that, making a bootable USB/DVD, I didn't get a bootup disk when I bought it online, so I don't have anything but the SSD to go by as far as booting it seemed. Could I maybe obtain the files online and make the DVD that way using my laptop?(I don't even know if the disk drive still works on this laptop honestly its quite old and dusty)

[zerassar]

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If built in recovery doesnt work... Make a bootable USB/DVD and boot off of that.
If its simply a case that the drive is too full... Then you can use that bootable media to browse the local disk and manually delete the ark folder.
Then try to boot again normally.

I'm... not sure how to do that, making a bootable USB/DVD, I didn't get a bootup disk when I bought it online, so I don't have anything but the SSD to go by as far as booting it seemed. Could I maybe obtain the files online and make the DVD that way using my laptop?(I don't even know if the disk drive still works on this laptop honestly its quite old and dusty)

It's 2022 let me introduce you to my best friend Google! Quite literally thousands of guides out there on how to do this. Wont reinvent the wheel by explaining it the the millionth time here. But there information is out there just take a gander.

Microsoft themselves provide a media creation tool that will download an image and make a USB bootable for you.

[Andminus]

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I'm... not sure how to do that, making a bootable USB/DVD, I didn't get a bootup disk when I bought it online, so I don't have anything but the SSD to go by as far as booting it seemed. Could I maybe obtain the files online and make the DVD that way using my laptop?(I don't even know if the disk drive still works on this laptop honestly its quite old and dusty)

It's 2022 let me introduce you to my best friend Google! Quite literally thousands of guides out there on how to do this. Wont reinvent the wheel by explaining it the the millionth time here. But there information is out there just take a gander.

Microsoft themselves provide a media creation tool that will download an image and make a USB bootable for you.

fair enough, understandable that a tech person, answering tech questions might of heard my questions a million times already; I am doing light google searches to try and find answers as I post this, my desktop JUST stopped working as listed and I'm a bit flustered about it and trying to find answers quickly to return it to a working state.

I also understand that what I asked at this point goes well beyond an "ark discussion" so I will just resume my search online for more tech related answers.

[zerassar]

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It's 2022 let me introduce you to my best friend Google! Quite literally thousands of guides out there on how to do this. Wont reinvent the wheel by explaining it the the millionth time here. But there information is out there just take a gander.

Microsoft themselves provide a media creation tool that will download an image and make a USB bootable for you.

fair enough, understandable that a tech person, answering tech questions might of heard my questions a million times already; I am doing light google searches to try and find answers as I post this, my desktop JUST stopped working as listed and I'm a bit flustered about it and trying to find answers quickly to return it to a working state.

I also understand that what I asked at this point goes well beyond an "ark discussion" so I will just resume my search online for more tech related answers.

Its ok I understand how it can feel. Take a breath, have a cup of tea, and come back to it with renewed energy.

Also dont be so critical of your ability. The difference between a "tech" person and anyone else is merely feeling ok to take a look into it and read up on the resources already out there. You're a very capable person I am sure of it. So credit where it's due ;-)

[Andminus]

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fair enough, understandable that a tech person, answering tech questions might of heard my questions a million times already; I am doing light google searches to try and find answers as I post this, my desktop JUST stopped working as listed and I'm a bit flustered about it and trying to find answers quickly to return it to a working state.

I also understand that what I asked at this point goes well beyond an "ark discussion" so I will just resume my search online for more tech related answers.

Its ok I understand how it can feel. Take a breath, have a cup of tea, and come back to it with renewed energy.

Also dont be so critical of your ability. The difference between a "tech" person and anyone else is merely feeling ok to take a look into it and read up on the resources already out there. You're a very capable person I am sure of it. So credit where it's due ;-)

I'm a very capable person, capable of using google to try and solve my problems... maybe, which is ironic as my mother seems to think I'm techy, but I'm likely very barely surface competent. I've constantly told her to use google herself like I do to solve her problems, I'm starting to get old like her and feeling the drag of having to do so.

I've got a spare 4tb SSD card, I've had for almost a year or so now that I've just be way too lazy to work out how to swap it with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 480gb SSD that the desktop came with.

I'mma probably start with trying to get a new connector wire for the old SSD to see if that'll help, I seem to recall this is not actually a new issue, but it was revertible last time I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up, it might of even been downloading the giant installer of Ark that caused it last time too, and I'm pretty sure I did have to replace a wire, and remove the folders after getting it to go through or something.

[Andminus]

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Its ok I understand how it can feel. Take a breath, have a cup of tea, and come back to it with renewed energy.

Also dont be so critical of your ability. The difference between a "tech" person and anyone else is merely feeling ok to take a look into it and read up on the resources already out there. You're a very capable person I am sure of it. So credit where it's due ;-)

I'm a very capable person, capable of using google to try and solve my problems... maybe, which is ironic as my mother seems to think I'm techy, but I'm likely very barely surface competent. I've constantly told her to use google herself like I do to solve her problems, I'm starting to get old like her and feeling the drag of having to do so.

I've got a spare 4tb SSD card, I've had for almost a year or so now that I've just be way too lazy to work out how to swap it with the crappy 480gb SSD that the desktop came with.

I'mma probably start with trying to get a new connector wire for the old SSD to see if that'll help, I seem to recall this is not actually a new issue, but it was revertible last time I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up, it might of even been downloading the giant installer of Ark that caused it last time too, and I'm pretty sure I did have to replace a wire, and remove the folders after getting it to go through or something.

[margalus]

You should always leave a minimum of 20% of your ssd free for them to stay healthy.

[[BRTD]Luewen]

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Game didn't brick your ssd. While ark is a demanding game, think on it as a canary in the coal mine to expose issues with hardware.

bloated files say other.mismanaged ..end.

Bloated files dont brick ssd's. Stop spewing crap.