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tl;dr — trying a different USB port fixed things...
Now, I know that you all know this. This is just another reminder that I could had used myself yesterday.
It all began when I decided to fire up an old laptop to see how it's doing. It has Ubuntu on the internal SSD, but I decided to instead use another SSD in an external enclosure — that one had W10 installed for testing and had been working fine so far.
First boot. Windows logo. Error message: inaccessible boot drive. Hmm, weird. "You are accessing the boot device to get this far, dummy!" I thought.
Second boot. Took forever to load. Went into recovery automatically. Then recovery failed. Okay. Tried to run checkdisk manually. Couldn't run that. Okaay... Tried to run cmd — no dice. What the hell?
Several more boots, trying to do the same thing and failing.
Then plugged the external SSD into my PC. Ran checkdisk — no errors. Interesting...
Booted the laptop into Ubuntu first, then plugged in the external SSD. Ran a benchmark because it seemed very slow. It got a consistent 1 MB/s. The real world speed when reading a file from it was 0.6 MB/s... Wow, such speed!
At this point I was almost certain that the drive was dying, about to stop working any second. Went back to my PC, tried to copy files there — speeds were actually normal. What the hell?!
My mind was racing and suddenly a light bulb went on in my head. I finally tried a different port on the laptop...
Voilà — the Windows desktop greeted me a few second later and everything ran flawlessly.
So yeah, sometimes it is the freaking port. Next time it's gonna be the first thing I try...
Now, I know that you all know this. This is just another reminder that I could had used myself yesterday.
It all began when I decided to fire up an old laptop to see how it's doing. It has Ubuntu on the internal SSD, but I decided to instead use another SSD in an external enclosure — that one had W10 installed for testing and had been working fine so far.
First boot. Windows logo. Error message: inaccessible boot drive. Hmm, weird. "You are accessing the boot device to get this far, dummy!" I thought.
Second boot. Took forever to load. Went into recovery automatically. Then recovery failed. Okay. Tried to run checkdisk manually. Couldn't run that. Okaay... Tried to run cmd — no dice. What the hell?
Several more boots, trying to do the same thing and failing.
Then plugged the external SSD into my PC. Ran checkdisk — no errors. Interesting...
Booted the laptop into Ubuntu first, then plugged in the external SSD. Ran a benchmark because it seemed very slow. It got a consistent 1 MB/s. The real world speed when reading a file from it was 0.6 MB/s... Wow, such speed!
At this point I was almost certain that the drive was dying, about to stop working any second. Went back to my PC, tried to copy files there — speeds were actually normal. What the hell?!
My mind was racing and suddenly a light bulb went on in my head. I finally tried a different port on the laptop...
Voilà — the Windows desktop greeted me a few second later and everything ran flawlessly.
So yeah, sometimes it is the freaking port. Next time it's gonna be the first thing I try...
