I have been having doubts about advice that my eMMC card is damaged, a hardware failure instead of software corruption. Are my suggestions regarding the evidence for this reasonable?
- On my dual boot Cube only Windows exhibits certain major problems, such as total inability to download / update apps from the Store. Android works perfectly well. Could this be explained by damage only to partitions with Windows, or does it seem more likely to be OS software corruption? All the partitions are shown as healthy in Disk Manager
- Some of the issues have been improved by my own trial and error poking about, or have improved spontaneously — eg. Cortana & Search did not work at all but now they open and I can enter text, which appears in Notebook, though I have not got Reminders to work and although I can enter search terms search does not work, except that it does work in Edge. Some of the Insight features have returned in MS Sticky Notes.
- Edge itself had vanished but a lot of effort by an online tech restored it, along with restoring the ability to link to websites with a url
- Monitoring utilities both native to Windows (eg. TaskManager, Checkdisk) and third-party programs (eg. SysGauge) show almost everything as Normal, Good, Healthy, etc. — nothing is Failed, and apart from the specific issues the Cube works well
- Unfortunately neither sfc/scannow or DISM work most (not all) the time. I get freezes and blackouts randomly (not all that often) and other odd things happen — but this is not unheard of is it?
- I can stil make use of the machine tolerably well and intend to wait to see what happens with the Creators update before doing anything more such as a repair reinstall, which I guess is what most people would recommend?
I hope some of this makes sense.
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