Windows 10 Error: Disks get disconnected

[Héctor Álvarez]

Hello, I'm having a HUGE problem lately, let me start from the beginning for background:​

This monday everything was working perfectly. I was doing what I do daily and suddenly got the frightening message: "We are going to update your version of Windows to make it better". As someone who works developing software and has seen years of failure through updates, I can tell every time I see this message something's going to break, (spoiler alert, I was right).​

So I kept my computer up that night, because I didn't have time to attend the problem, but the computer restarted itself during the night (I forgot to stop that crap from updating itself). So the next day when I looked at the computer I was greeted by a BSOD cycle: Critical process died, bad system info, etc. as you can tell by the sheer amount of people who are getting BSODs due to crappy updates. I eventually managed to solve it by triggering startup recovery, then went into diskpart and activated my OS drive, then let it run automatic update and it fixed itself. I thought I had saved myself for the N-th time, but I was wrong, the next day it updated itself again to the faulty version and my PC broke again, this time I was incapable of recovering it. None of the options available worked (e.g. system recovery, the last option for the desperate, was unable to start due to some internal problem).​

And so this was beyond troubleshooting, I eventually plugged my bootable USB with HirensBoot utilities, downloaded my data to an external drive and got ready to start fresh. I downloaded the media creation tool, set it to my current version of Windows (because apparently if you reinstall the same version you keep the license, otherwise you lose it, and this feature actually worked) and installed fresh. I formatted every volume to make sure the faulty stuff was erased.​

I installed my motherboard drivers and tested the system a bit, all looked good, but now after a few updates from Windows Update (the system is currently up to the latest version) my god damn disks get randomly disconnected!​

For example, I have a 120GB SSD reserved for games, so I installed Battle.net and started downloading Starcraft 2... it took about 30 seconds to freeze, and the drive was missing. The same happens to my other secondary drive, but C: doesn't suffer this problem (probably because it's system-blocked and dismisses any call to detach the volume).​

In any case, I can't find any info relevant to this problem, most issue with this are about server backups that fail to write because the script mounts and drops the device at will, and it's detached before the operation ends, but this is a fresh install for a personal computer, with updated OS and drivers. My assumption here is the storage driver was broken by some update, but I honestly have no idea what's happening at all.​

Extra info: I've checked the Event viewer and see the following events that appear to be relevant:​

• EnhancedStorage-EhStorTcgDrv - ID 10

A TCG Command has returned an error.
Desc: AuthenticateSession
Param1: 0x1
Param2: 0x60000001C
Param3: 0x900000006
Param4: 0x0
Status: 0x12​

• DistributedCOM - ID 10016

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{6B3B8D23-FA8D-40B9-8DBD-B950333E2C52}
and APPID
{4839DDB7-58C2-48F5-8283-E1D1807D0D7D}
to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.​

• Disk - ID 51

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation.​

• Disk - ID 157

Disk 2 has been surprise removed.​

Please help me troubleshoot this, this error is pretty much critical and my system is totally unstable since the last forced update. Also feel free to let me know if there's a way to stop updates from happening.

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