Originally Posted by
pacificcyclist
It could be your solid state drive. Unlike a hard drive, a solid state drive isn't meant to last forever due to the degradation of memory cells of reading and writing to the drive itself. Newer SSD drives are better on this regard. I usually buy an extended warranty on SSD from Memory Express and had since replaced the drives twice already within a year.
That's what I'm thinking, but I'm not sure how to replace it. I save almost all my work to an external thumb drive or SD card and I back it up onto another drive. That information is safe.