I have a Sony Vaio Pro. Was having frequent BSOD crashes and so did a full reset of Windows 10. BSOD crashes continued; I'd have a period where it would constantly crash every few minutes, but then other periods where all was well for days at a time.
Several BSOD crashes this morning (as I was trying to read instructions for diagnosing driver issues to stop BSOD crashes...) that culminated in "Your VAIO failed to start Windows. System recovery failed to start from the internal hard disk drive/solid-state drive." From there I could get into the BIOS (nothing obviously wrong there), but nothing else worked.
Some time later (as I was finding another computer to post this) I was able to boot into windows normally but immediately shut it down before breaking anything else.
Is this an SSD failure or potentially something else? Is there a way of better diagnosing this (I may be able to do something from Windows if it behaves)?
I'm happy to replace the SSD if that is the likely problem. Files etc. aren't an issue; everything important is backed up elsewhere.
According to the interwebz, Sony Vaio Pros use a PCIe SSD. I've never bought one of these before; is searching "PCIe SSD" sufficient or are there other things to take into account?