Strange. Two years ago my PC with Samsung 840 EVO 1 TB got corrupted somehow. Impossible to fix Windows, so I bought a completely new computer and a new C: drive, Samsung 970 PRO 1 TB this time. Fresh install of Windows 10. Formatted the corrupted 840 drive, and to this day that old drive works fine. So it seems it was a software level corruption.
Yesterday something happened to my new computer with the 970 C: drive. I installed one thing, restarted the computer, and then everything was broken. Only simple programs like Thunderbird open. All other programs are corrupted, each producing different random errors (same error each time, but completely different error per program). So, I thought whatever, I'll recover to a week old incremental backup of whole C: and I did it (I have also older incremental backups). The recovery took a couple of hours and finished fine. However, now with the week old state, which worked fine before (because the corruption day was yesterday), the same random errors for programs are occurring!
So first thought, malware? But, I have been running Kaspersky Internet Security 2019 all the time, it shows absolutely no problems.
So one thought would be this must be a hardware problem. However, based on the problem 2 years back (completely different computer), I do not know if this might still be a data problem and not a hardware problem. Of course, how could it be that a recovered backup would be corrupted as well, when it worked fine at time of backup. Also, this new computer should be pretty good, only high quality components presumably.
Samsung Magician says Drive Health is GOOD (no signs of problems). No hints of any other problems I can think of, either.
What can I do to pinpoint the problem source?
"scandisk /sfc" didn't help (as usual, it says problems were fixed, but it makes no difference, as usual).
Yesterday something happened to my new computer with the 970 C: drive. I installed one thing, restarted the computer, and then everything was broken. Only simple programs like Thunderbird open. All other programs are corrupted, each producing different random errors (same error each time, but completely different error per program). So, I thought whatever, I'll recover to a week old incremental backup of whole C: and I did it (I have also older incremental backups). The recovery took a couple of hours and finished fine. However, now with the week old state, which worked fine before (because the corruption day was yesterday), the same random errors for programs are occurring!
So first thought, malware? But, I have been running Kaspersky Internet Security 2019 all the time, it shows absolutely no problems.
So one thought would be this must be a hardware problem. However, based on the problem 2 years back (completely different computer), I do not know if this might still be a data problem and not a hardware problem. Of course, how could it be that a recovered backup would be corrupted as well, when it worked fine at time of backup. Also, this new computer should be pretty good, only high quality components presumably.
Samsung Magician says Drive Health is GOOD (no signs of problems). No hints of any other problems I can think of, either.
What can I do to pinpoint the problem source?
"scandisk /sfc" didn't help (as usual, it says problems were fixed, but it makes no difference, as usual).
