Yesterday I got home around 8.30pm. In this period all volleyball matches are played abroad and they are just qualifier matches, so the league isn’t sending me there. Since I managed to catch up with all the photos I decided to take this time before the international championships starting in July/August to clean up my PC, delete some photos and maybe edit a few more of the hundreds that were not my first choices.
I turned on my pc:“Windows is installing some trash, come back later, you scum”…ok, I guess I’ll have a shower. I go back to my studio: 51% done. Fuck me…well, I wait a bit more on the bed and when I check the monitor everything is done, yay. I open my photo editor and notice that no photos show up in the preview…odd, since just last night I had some work to edit…well, no worries, file -> open ->…my hard disks are not in the list of drives.
Jesus appeared in front of me and asked me to forgive him. I told him:“Ok, but help me out a bit here…”
My first thought was that the system needed an extra restart to be back to its former glory, so I restart it: nope, my 3 hard drives that I use for storage (6TB) are missing, the only available drives are the ssd where Windows is installed and an old 1tb drive that I use to legally download legal backup copies of legally owned movies and music.
I check online, people are having issues with Intel and Toshiba SSDs after the update. My C: is an Intel ssd, fuck me…but no one is having the same problem as me, so before going downstairs and committing seppuku I decide to see if it’s something that I can fix or bypass by myself.
My motherboard’s bios shows no problem, all the drives are there. Just for safety I decided to update the hd controller but it made no difference, for Windows there were no disks to be found.
I noticed that along with my storage hard drives even my second ssd was missing: that’s my backup ssd, a WD drive of the same size at the Intel where I keep a clone image of the main hard drive. I open the tower, unplug the Intel ssd and go back to bios, setting the WD disk as boot disk. Windows starts and the older version shows all my drives properly. I recover from the heart attack and I immediately turn off Windows updates. Whatever happened, it’s not an hardware issue of the hard disks, so all my photos are safe and sound. Windows 10 April update was the equivalent of ebola for my Intel ssd.
After that, all software worked just as expected and the only lost data where a few pics I downloaded from 4chan during the few days from the last time I cloned my main ssd.
Now I can only wonder: what will happen when I get home tonight? Has anyone else felt the joy of the April update?
