Ryzen 3700x Gave Up the Ghost. What's next?

[Sammy 781]

My nearly 6 y.o. Ryzen 3700x with GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB has given up on me.

The hardware is still good but the boot drive doesn't show all Windows and other directories from the command prompt.

I can reinstall Windows, try to recover from Macrium Reflect or build a new machine.

If I build new what's the current recommended hardware?

Then how to rebuild the Drive Pool drive?

[Luke 39783]

Hi, there are some good suggestions in this topic: 

 

[yocker 168]

6 hours ago, Sammy said:

My nearly 6 y.o. Ryzen 3700x with GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB has given up on me.

The hardware is still good but the boot drive doesn't show all Windows and other directories from the command prompt.

I can reinstall Windows, try to recover from Macrium Reflect or build a new machine.

If I build new what's the current recommended hardware?

Then how to rebuild the Drive Pool drive?

If you only use it as a server i recommend installing Unraid on it and have it live on.
Having a dedicated server is a whole new world.

[Sammy 781]

1 hour ago, yocker said:

If you only use it as a server i recommend installing Unraid on it and have it live on.
Having a dedicated server is a whole new world.

I use it for much more than a server for Emby as also do other things like run media fetching and personal stuff but am not opposed to doing this. The data is there but I've lost the DrivePool index. How would I go about doing this because I can set up a mini computer for other tasks.

[Sammy 781]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, there are some good suggestions in this topic: 

 

Thanks @Luke!

 

I'll take a look.

[all4dom 89]

@Sammyi just built a new server for emby but it can handle more. If you want any suggestions let mw know. 

[Sammy 781]

18 hours ago, all4dom said:

@Sammyi just built a new server for emby but it can handle more. If you want any suggestions let mw know. 

I saw your post and maybe I missed it but what was your parts list?

Working on recovery via Macrium Reflect from full and incremental backups but first started with running the windows boot recovery and waiting for it to finish.

I may still build a new server just for Emby though.

 

[Sammy 781]

So still not booting but at least I can see all my data, including that on the c:\ drive.

My hardware is good but I think I will use this opportunity to update this machine to Win11 by replacing the M.2 drive, updating the BIOS Firmware to a Win11 compatible BIOS then installing Win11 on a new M.2 drive plus installing a second M.2 drive for Emby Data, including the transcode buffer.

All this was planned already and I even already have the drives to do it but just haven't had the time to do it. Now I'll make the time to do it!

[Sammy 781]

So I was able to recover using Macrium Reflect and flashed my MoBo BIOS to the latest version which is dated March 11, 2025 on this 2019 GigaByte X570 Gaming X MoBo which brings it current and ready for Windows 11. My m.2 SSD will need an swap though as it has had too many read-write cycles over the last 5½ years. The MoBo supports dual m.2's so I'll be putting in both of the new ones I have, one mostly for Windows and the other for Emby's transcode and data libraries. I've never swapped a boot drive before having just built new whenever the time came so this should be interesting.. I'll use Macrium Reflect to clone the drive and then restore it to the new one. Hopefully I won't have much of an issue with moving he Emby Data over but any tips from @Lukeor others is welcomed!

 

Wish me luck!

[Luke 39783]

Let us know how things go. Thanks.

[Sammy 781]

10 minutes ago, Luke said:

Let us know how things go. Thanks.

I'm assuming if I clone the drive all the Emby Data will come over too. Then I just move the transcode libraries, etc to the other SSD and change the folder paths in the server and I'll be good to go. I'm heading out for an extended weekend today and won't be able to get to this until I return. Wish I could do it today but the Missus wants to get going sooner than later. I'm torn on whether to leave the machine on in fear of it not rebooting or leaving it on and some sort of read-write event happens to crash it again and I cannot recover.. It took me three days of persistence to get it going again.

[Sammy 781]

Quick question!

I'm going to clone my current m.2 boot drive using Macrium Reflect. Can I use an external USB m.2 enclosure such as this to do so or do I need to use the second m.2 port on my MoBo?

Edited Thursday at 02:01 PM by Sammy

[Sammy 781]

I have both of these NIB. Which should I use?

https://a.co/d/c8BaqvQ

https://www.newegg.com/intel-660p-series-1tb/p/N82E16820167462?tpk=1&item=N82E16820167462

[RanmaCanada 449]

9 hours ago, Sammy said:

I have both of these NIB. Which should I use?

https://a.co/d/c8BaqvQ

https://www.newegg.com/intel-660p-series-1tb/p/N82E16820167462?tpk=1&item=N82E16820167462

The Intel is QLC which will have horrible write endurance, 5 year warranty and a mere 200TBW. The Samsung is TLC with 5 year warranty and 600TBW.

Samsung all the way. Also you should be able to image it to an external as it won't matter as you're just doing a data transfer.

[yocker 168]

On 4/28/2025 at 2:02 PM, Sammy said:

I use it for much more than a server for Emby as also do other things like run media fetching and personal stuff but am not opposed to doing this. The data is there but I've lost the DrivePool index. How would I go about doing this because I can set up a mini computer for other tasks.

I don't know how to recover the drivepool sorry.
I know Unraid can transfer ZFSs pool from other systems and use it but don't know how.

[Sammy 781]

10 hours ago, yocker said:

I don't know how to recover the drivepool sorry.
I know Unraid can transfer ZFSs pool from other systems and use it but don't know how.

Since I recovered the boot drive I'm going to clone it and the DrivePool should come along. That said, before I clone it, I'll check with CoveCube (software developers of DrivePool) to see what the procedure is. Thank you for mentioning this as I hadn't considered checking this.

[Sammy 781]

22 hours ago, Sammy said:

Quick question!

I'm going to clone my current m.2 boot drive using Macrium Reflect. Can I use an external USB m.2 enclosure such as this to do so or do I need to use the second m.2 port on my MoBo?

 

21 hours ago, Sammy said:

I have both of these NIB. Which should I use?

https://a.co/d/c8BaqvQ

https://www.newegg.com/intel-660p-series-1tb/p/N82E16820167462?tpk=1&item=N82E16820167462

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueler?

Anyone?

[RanmaCanada 449]

1 hour ago, Sammy said:

 

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueler?

Anyone?

I answered your question already...

 

 

[Sammy 781]

43 minutes ago, RanmaCanada said:

I answered your question already...

 

 

Sorry.

 

For whatever reason I didn't get notified in my email and missed the post.

[Sammy 781]

14 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

The Intel is QLC which will have horrible write endurance, 5 year warranty and a mere 200TBW. The Samsung is TLC with 5 year warranty and 600TBW.

Samsung all the way. Also you should be able to image it to an external as it won't matter as you're just doing a data transfer.

I've had the Intel for several years but got the Samsung a few months back because I couldn't find the Intel after I move but found it recently.

The Intel is the same drive I have failing now BTW. It lasted 5 years and a few months and performance seemed pretty good until recently. The Samsung will be an upgrade to my machine which I just flashed the BIOS for Windows 11. Thank you GigaByte for long support as this BIOS was from March..

 

My MoBo has dual m.2 slots so I'll put the Intel in slot 2 for a transcode buffer and db storage etc.

[Neminem 807]

Do NOT put Transcode and your DB on the same NVME if you transcode a lot.

Transcoding is a lot of read and write.

You might loss you DB if on that drive.

[Sammy 781]

20 hours ago, Neminem said:

Do NOT put Transcode and your DB on the same NVME if you transcode a lot.

Transcoding is a lot of read and write.

You might loss you DB if on that drive.

While I know this I've been doing it for over 5 years on my boot drive and most likely why it's failing. I'll keep the db on the boot drive and move the transcoding to the secondary m.2 drive.

 

Thank you for the reminder!

[RanmaCanada 449]

2 hours ago, Sammy said:

While I know this I've been doing it for over 5 years on my boot drive and most likely why it's failing. I'll keep the db on the boot drive and move the transcoding to the secondary m.2 drive.

 

Thank you for the reminder!

I think it's more that your boot drive has such a low write endurance that you might have capped it. I would use crystaldiskinfo to see what your TBW is at.

I do a LOT and as such my boot drive on my main rig gets hit hard as I cache to my OS drive to keep up performance. My UD90 has a TBW of 600TB, so in 2 years I've just hit a third of my endurance. This is on my daily driver, not my encode server.

 

[Sammy 781]

5 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

I think it's more that your boot drive has such a low write endurance that you might have capped it. I would use crystaldiskinfo to see what your TBW is at.

I do a LOT and as such my boot drive on my main rig gets hit hard as I cache to my OS drive to keep up performance. My UD90 has a TBW of 600TB, so in 2 years I've just hit a third of my endurance. This is on my daily driver, not my encode server.

 

CrystalDiskInfo already told me the drive was failing a while ago but life gets in the way of tinkering sometime.

 

Anyhow, now's the time to do something about the issue and swap out somw older drives while I'm at it..

 

I got the drive cloned but now I cannot boot from it. Frustrating!

I've changed the BIOS settings but it just boots from the old drive and when I put the new drive in the m.2 slot on the MoBo it boots to an error abou missing files. I think I need to try cloning again.

[Sammy 781]

On 5/10/2025 at 3:24 PM, Sammy said:

CrystalDiskInfo already told me the drive was failing a while ago but life gets in the way of tinkering sometime.

 

Anyhow, now's the time to do something about the issue and swap out somw older drives while I'm at it..

 

I got the drive cloned but now I cannot boot from it. Frustrating!

I've changed the BIOS settings but it just boots from the old drive and when I put the new drive in the m.2 slot on the MoBo it boots to an error abou missing files. I think I need to try cloning again.

So I contacted my son who built his first computer at 7 with my assistance and now is in upper management at Reddit (am I proud?) and he said it's probably a missing or corrupted boot sector. I asked how to fix it but being mother's day and he was spending it with his wife I have not heard back so I am asking here.

 

How to check and fix this?