PC Got Slow, Windows Broke, Windows Recovery Failed, Chkdsk Says M.2 is Fine

Hi everyone,

I’m running a rig with 32Gb DDR5 RAM, a 7800x3D on an MSI board, and an ADATA M.2.

Yesterday, my computer suddenly started acting slow in the weirdest ways, so I figured I just needed to restart it. This basically bricked my PC as it would endlessly get stuck in a repair loop. I tried creating a recovery USB from my laptop and that works to get me into the recovery environment. I ran CHKDSK on my boot drive (the M.2) and it came up error free. I then, reluctantly, tried reinstalling Windows but after maybe 90 minutes it stopped at 42% and failed telling me there was a problem (no further details). Now I’ve got it running a full clean install, but it’s stuck on 1% after 2 hours.

I have no idea why my PC decided to brick itself, and it doesn’t *seem* like the hard drive failed. Does anyone have any suggestions?