Question about a (probably) hung restore to a laptop SSD

Factual Questions
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I’m trying to do a restore to a friend’s laptop who spilled some water on it. The laptop went dead for awhile but then seemed to recover but Windows couldn’t boot properly and boot repair failed. So I’m doing a full restore from backup using Macrium Reflect and a bootable USB recovery image.

There are three partitions: a small Dell recovery partition, the standard Windows “SYSTEM” partition, and the main Windows and data partition that’s about 450 GB. The first two partitions restore quickly, with “Attempting TRIM operation” preceding each one. When it gets to the point of restoring the main partition, it hangs on the “Attempting TRIM operation” part. It’s been sitting there for about three hours now, with the disk activity light flashing regularly.

I suspect the SSD is probably partially fried although it’s odd that there is no problem restoring the small partitions, and there is no error message or other indication of a problem when trying to restore the big one. It just sits there.

I originally installed that SSD years ago and don’t recall any issues doing a restore to it, but the SSD was brand new and now it’s been in use for years so maybe TRIM takes a long time to do whatever it’s doing with the SSD cells? I’d rather not leave it running overnight if this is hopeless. My friend has a new SSD that can be put in as a replacement but it’s at their house and replacing it is kind of a delicate PITA. I’m mainly just wondering if it’s a waste of time and wear and tear for nothing to leave this running much longer.

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Well, to answer my own question, I left it running overnight and it was still stuck at “Attempting TRIM operation”. I think it’s probably safe to say that it would never finish.

So now I’ve disabled the attempt to trim that one large partition and, somewhat surprisingly, it now seems to be successfully proceeding with the restore. I don’t know whether the restore will be successful or not as there may also be other problems and it will be an hour or two before it completes, but that’s an entirely different matter and outside the scope of this question.