On 19/10/2020 12:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Mystery solved. It was a disk failure: a 256GB NVMe drive. It was 4.5 years old, which doesn't seem a long life to me.
Doesn't sound old, but if it breaks in the fault-tolerance-management area, then you're stuffed. Bit like old MFM (pre-IDE) drives had the bad-block-management area, and if the first (boot/partition) sector went, or said bad-block area, the drive was scrap.
Cheers, Wol
