About 3-4 months ago, I replaced most of my PC’s internals, like CPU, GPU and motherboard. I started having issues with my PC about a month ago, small things like visual glitches in Chrome and discord crashing often that I ignored. It has started to happen more often and now I get a BSOD at least once a day, usually with the error MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, but sometimes other errors. I ran a mdsched.exe and it said that there are hardware issues. I also have a lot of error logs in my event viewer saying stuff like "Volume C: (\Device\HarddiskVolume5) needs to be taken offline to perform a Full Chkdsk. Please run “CHKDSK /F” locally via the command line, or run “REPAIR-VOLUME " locally or remotely via PowerShell.”
I also started playing Fortnite recently and the load times have been insane, like 2 minutes and sometimes the game is halfway done by the time I load in, or it just crashes. No other games have these issues, and after fortnite my pc will crash pretty soon or just be incredibly slow until I restart.
I know that typically memory = RAM and storage = SSD/HDD, but it says memory issues then mentions my C drive in error logs and stuff, so I don’t know which one is the issue, or both (hopefully not).
Basically, is it my RAM or C: drive that is failing? And if it is my C: drive, is there a way to just copy everything to a new SSD, or do I need to reinstall windows and start fresh? Thanks.
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