(English isn't my first language, sorry for my poor grammar.)
Hello, this is my first, and probably only time posting on this forum, i come to tell my situation, that happened just a few hours ago, I don't know if this was caused by OBS, but certainly it was the last program that i willingly wrote on my hard drive.
So, a few months back i changed from HDD to SSD, both 2TB, i didn't format the HDD since i wanted a smooth transition, moving and pasting files to the SSD as i needed, so, effectively i had 2 bootable instances of windows, this will be important in a moment.
So today i wanted to export my OBS configs to the SSD, my friend told me that there was a button for that, so i logged out of my SSD and booted on the HDD, then i loaded windows and opened OBS, i clicked on the "export" button on "profile" and named a folder "OBSConfig" under the root of the SSD, after that, i logged back to the SSD, saying there was something wrong with the SSD information and it needed to restart, i had the option of restarting later, so before i restarted, i tried importing the settings to the newly downloaded OBS, it requested access but didn't do anything, then said i didn't have access to the files when i tried to open it myself (I have administrator rights on my PC), so , i tried adding myself manually as owner of the folder, clicked apply and a window popped up saying that the data was corrupted, so the operation couldn't be performed.
After all that, i clicked restart, and it booted on the windows recovery mode, it had the option to boot back like normal, so i tried that, didn't work, then tried reinstalling windows saving all the files from a local windows installation, didn't work, then tried reinstalling from the web, didn't work, after disabling CSM on the BIOS the SSD booted one last time, a lot of files were missing, discord booted half, tried reinstalling it fast, but it gave an error and, when i checked, the discord installation folder was gone (at least not found using the file explorer), same with firefox, but the folder still could be found with only some DLLs, so after all that, i decided to hop back into my HDD, it gave the same error message about something wrong with the information, requesting to reboot, so, in fear of my PC not booting and running out of any bootable devices i used that session only to install a fresh 16gb Adata USB drive (its not the best, but it's what i had) and copying an important project i had (5gb or so, I don't know if it was still complete), so after that, i booted from the USB drive, but my stupid self did format the HDD instead of the SSD, leaving me without info on the HDD ,sadly i cannot give the OBS version where i exported my configs from due to that mistake of mine, to avoid that again, i just unplugged the HDD from the SATA panel between boots (with the power OFF), so i could only format the SSD (windows doesn't tell which drive is which and since they are both 2TB they were very hard to check which one i was selecting).
I formatted the SSD, only for it to get an error 0x80300024 from the installer, after that, i did clean the SSD myself by using the following commands on the installer CMD:
$ diskpart
$ list disk
$ sel disk *id of the SSD*
$ clean
after that, the SSD was gone for real too, it seemed that the trick worked and tried installing but it only sent me back to the installer.
So, here i am, after almost 5 hours of pain and misery with a 3 month SSD (requesting warranty), i am writing this from the newly installed HHD installation that i made, the last week of work on my project is sadly lost forever, so now i can only tell my story of how i managed to fuck up so badly, i don't know if this is replicable, but if it is, i can request any extra info on this post or via private message (depends what kind of info).
I am still gonna use OBS btw
Hello, this is my first, and probably only time posting on this forum, i come to tell my situation, that happened just a few hours ago, I don't know if this was caused by OBS, but certainly it was the last program that i willingly wrote on my hard drive.
So, a few months back i changed from HDD to SSD, both 2TB, i didn't format the HDD since i wanted a smooth transition, moving and pasting files to the SSD as i needed, so, effectively i had 2 bootable instances of windows, this will be important in a moment.
So today i wanted to export my OBS configs to the SSD, my friend told me that there was a button for that, so i logged out of my SSD and booted on the HDD, then i loaded windows and opened OBS, i clicked on the "export" button on "profile" and named a folder "OBSConfig" under the root of the SSD, after that, i logged back to the SSD, saying there was something wrong with the SSD information and it needed to restart, i had the option of restarting later, so before i restarted, i tried importing the settings to the newly downloaded OBS, it requested access but didn't do anything, then said i didn't have access to the files when i tried to open it myself (I have administrator rights on my PC), so , i tried adding myself manually as owner of the folder, clicked apply and a window popped up saying that the data was corrupted, so the operation couldn't be performed.
After all that, i clicked restart, and it booted on the windows recovery mode, it had the option to boot back like normal, so i tried that, didn't work, then tried reinstalling windows saving all the files from a local windows installation, didn't work, then tried reinstalling from the web, didn't work, after disabling CSM on the BIOS the SSD booted one last time, a lot of files were missing, discord booted half, tried reinstalling it fast, but it gave an error and, when i checked, the discord installation folder was gone (at least not found using the file explorer), same with firefox, but the folder still could be found with only some DLLs, so after all that, i decided to hop back into my HDD, it gave the same error message about something wrong with the information, requesting to reboot, so, in fear of my PC not booting and running out of any bootable devices i used that session only to install a fresh 16gb Adata USB drive (its not the best, but it's what i had) and copying an important project i had (5gb or so, I don't know if it was still complete), so after that, i booted from the USB drive, but my stupid self did format the HDD instead of the SSD, leaving me without info on the HDD ,sadly i cannot give the OBS version where i exported my configs from due to that mistake of mine, to avoid that again, i just unplugged the HDD from the SATA panel between boots (with the power OFF), so i could only format the SSD (windows doesn't tell which drive is which and since they are both 2TB they were very hard to check which one i was selecting).
I formatted the SSD, only for it to get an error 0x80300024 from the installer, after that, i did clean the SSD myself by using the following commands on the installer CMD:
$ diskpart
$ list disk
$ sel disk *id of the SSD*
$ clean
after that, the SSD was gone for real too, it seemed that the trick worked and tried installing but it only sent me back to the installer.
So, here i am, after almost 5 hours of pain and misery with a 3 month SSD (requesting warranty), i am writing this from the newly installed HHD installation that i made, the last week of work on my project is sadly lost forever, so now i can only tell my story of how i managed to fuck up so badly, i don't know if this is replicable, but if it is, i can request any extra info on this post or via private message (depends what kind of info).
I am still gonna use OBS btw
