I'm only guessing, but so far the only thing I can think of is when I tried to hook up the 21 ras pi that is where the driver power state failure happened and the blue screen from that event is what might have? caused the corruption of the files or just the wallet data?
From here tho I guess if I don't have a wallet dat file from before that time then I'm screwed.
If this is all for a learning lesson in the end, how often do you need to back up your wallet? Just the once when you first install bitcoin core? Or every time you have sent or received? Also being a SSD I guess it's best to keep that back up off this machine as well.