Windows 10: Windows 10 Update 2004 has totally destabilized my computer hard drives

Yesterday, August 5 2020, I installed the Windows 10 Update #2004 May and ever since then I have been having stabilization issues with my computer.


I have 3 hard drives:

- C: 512Gb m.2 NVME

- D: 512Gb SSD drive for games

- G: 256Gb SSD drive for games


I keep my Steam games installed on G, and Modern Warfare installed on D. After the update which everything seemed successful I would go to play Rocket League from Steam and the game would just crash straight to desktop in the middle of playing with no warnings. The error logs of the game showed some graphics related issues.


In addition to Rocket League crashing a few other weird things were happening on my PC. I have Malwarebytes installed and when trying to close it, it brings up a Windows Access dialog asking you to confirm you want to allow settings to be changed. I was unable to select 'Yes'. The 'No' checkbox would be highlighted and I couldn't actually click 'Yes'.


After a few manual hardware reboots, I was able to finally able to click on those access elevation dialogs. As a result I was able to completely reinstall my graphics card drivers.


After reinstalling the graphics card drivers, and disabling all in-game/desktop overlays Discord gaming overlay, nvidia geforce experience I tried Rocket League again. The game still crashed to desktop frequently.


At this point I completely uninstalled Rocket League and then redownloaded 10Gb and reinstalled it. After rebooting my system voluntarily I decided to give it a shot again. Still crash to desktop.


I decided to try another game. I booted up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the game would just freeze in the main menus on startup. And error dialog was displayed and researching the error message had people from Reddit saying the only thing that fixed it for them was a complete reinstall of the game.


Seeing how a reinstall of Rocket League didn't help my experience I was hesitant, but still decided to uninstall all 215Gb of Modern Warfare and attempt to reinstall it.


Well, my computer never lives long enough to download and install the game. The system just bluescreens when downloading and then when attempting to verify my partial download that got interrupted from the sudden restart.


I have booted into recovery mode, and rolled back the Windows Update 2004 install but my system is still super unstable and restarting all the time. I came back to my desktop in the morning after sleeping and it was fully restarted =


At this point I'm not really sure what to do. I'm beyond frustrated with this. Thankfully I was able to get this post written before the next crash.

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hard disk drive problem

i have a western digital 120 gb ide hard drive ( there was still 25 gb free space ) and everything was running fine until i decided to update windows xp home edition service pack 1 to service pack 2. I updated the windows and after the updating was done it asked me to restart the computer so i restarted the computer and it was normal then the windows would not start up. i turned off the computer and then turned it back on, everything gets on normally but it gets stock at where it says windows xp, it just stays there forever therefore i dont get to my desktop. Any idea what might be causing the problem?

I have an old hard disk drive which im not using and it has 10 gb space. Can i plug it to my system and run the windows from that and still be able use my other hard disk too so i can uninstall the service pack 2 from my hard disk.

Waiting for your suggestions!

Thank you for your time !

 

Samsung M3 portable hard drive not getting recognised on Windows 10.

Hi,

Thank you for your response with the current status of the issue.

To assist you better, please provide us the below information

• Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the external hard drive on the computer?
• Are you logged into the Administrator Account while assigning the driver letter to the external hard drive?

I recommend you to follow the steps below to update all the pending Windows updates and also try to reinstall the hard drive driver in the Device Manager. Check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to update all the pending Windows updates in the computer and check if it helps.

1. Click on Start Menu.

2. Then select Settings.

3. Choose Update & security >
Windows Update >Check for updates. Install any available updates and restart your PC if required.

Step 2: I recommend you to uninstall and reinstall the Hard drive as suggested in the previous post. Also you can run Hardware and Device troubleshooter.

Step 3: Then try to boot the computer in safe mode and check if the hard drive is getting recgonized in it or not.

Start your PC in safe mode in Windows 10:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode

Please get back to us with an update on issue in connecting External hard drive into Windows 10, we will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Windows 10 1909 Causes Secondary Hard Drive to not be Recognized

Installing the Windows 10 1909 Update causes my secondary hard drive to not be recognized.

Steps to confirm issue:

• Secondary drive not visible in Windows Explorer
• Secondary drive not visible in device manager
• Secondary drive not visible in disk manager

Steps to replicate issue:

• Installing 1909 update

Steps to resolve issue:

• Uninstall 1909 update

Since updates can only be delayed for so long, an actual fix would be appreciated.