Prior to today, this is what my system was like:
SSD - 250GB - Windows 10 installed (C:/)HDD - 1TB Seagate Barracuda (X:/)
After I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, the computer worked, but it was a bit messed up, as I had previously had some user profile links onto my HDD (X:/) and I ended up with files all over the place, for example I had 4 copies of IE, 2 on C:, 2 on X:, none of which worked. And every time I turned it on, it tried to do a certain update, got to about 35%, failed and restarted. But I couldn't be bothered to reinstall windows yet again, so I left it like that.
Today I've finally got around to sorting it all out, so I have removed my old 1TB HDD, put in a new 4TB HDD (Western Digital), and I've used a brand new USB Windows 10 (official - home) to reinstall.
From the install screen, I deleted everything on the SSD and created a new drive, which went fine. My new HDD was in place, but obviously empty, so I created a new drive out of that space.Windows was installed onto the SSD and after some messing around, it looked like it was working. However, I then noticed that every 5-10 minutes it was freezing the computer completely, with a hard reset the only thing which would bring it back to life.
I tried to run a 'sfc /scannow', but it never managed to complete, because it was always freezing before it could get to 100%. When I say it froze, it was pretty much everything, so even CTRL+ALT+DEL wouldn't work, the start menu stopped responding, websites wouldn't load, etc..
I opened the task manager and left it up so I could see what was happening when it froze, and here is that picture:
As you can see the C: (the ssd) shot up to 100% use and didn't budge.
I did manage to get it to complete the /scannow command eventually, and I went into the C:/Windows/Logs/somethingorother to look at the file, but it wouldn't open, then notepad froze and nothing would open.
I also noticed that if I turned the PC off and on, it would come back and boot into windows as normal (and then freeze later), but if I just did a reset/restart using the reset button on my tower, it would come up with a black screen telling me to reboot or insert a bootable media. At which point I checked the boot order and that was fine, so somewhere along the lines it's not recognising this SSD.
A few things I tried at this point were:
None of that worked, so the next thing I tried was:
This didn't make any difference. I also tried reinstalling windows on the SSD again, with the new HDD disconnected, and it made no difference to the problem.
So all that being said, that leads me to believe the problem is with the 250GB SSD, but that was working perfectly fine prior to the attempted new windows install today..
Based on my testing, does that seem like a fair assumption, that somewhere between yesterday and today the SSD has messed up? Or is there something else I can try, before I bin it and buy a new one, as the old 60GB isn't really big enough for windows and all the updates, that's why I upgraded to 250 a while ago.
Thanks.
Specs:Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth 990fx r2.0GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 760CPU: AMD FX-6300OS: Windows 10 home 64bitThe 250GB SSD: SanDisk SSD PlusThe old 60GB SSD: Kingston.something
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Try putting you pc in safe mode and run it bet it runs no problem because your doing a clean install am sure the drivers are missing am having the same problem think am going to install windows 8 then do an upgrade install of windows 10 next to see if that works
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So I currently have windows 10 running on my 120Gb SSD, but I just bought a new 500Gb SSD to replace this as I'm running out of space and frankly, need to wipe it anyways due to music programs bugging out.
I was just wondering what the best way to do this is as I'm a bit of a noob? I still have my windows 7 CD but no longer have the key it seems :/ but I would ideally like to keep my windows 10 upgrade anyways
I know vaguely that there is cloning software out there? So I could possibly do that then reset windows once its on my new SSD?
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Or I could try to burn some sort of windows 10 install onto a disk and do a completely fresh install? (again I only have a loose grasp on this stuff atm, for instance ive read that my windows 10 license is bound to my motherboard/CPU?)
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Changing the drive your Windows 10 install is on isn't nearly as painful as it once was. In fact, assuming you've got a spare hour or so, it's actually a very simple process. But one question remains: Should you clone the existing drive to the new one or do a clean install?
That's what one Windows Central Forums member is asking.
In the case above, the advice would always be to clean install. Personally, that would be the approach I would, and always do take. Cloning software is pretty good, but I've had problems with cloned drives in the past. Clean installs and then reinstating apps and data has always worked the best.
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Don't try to copy the old OS from the HDD, it is much better to clean install Windows 10 on the SSD
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Changing the drive your Windows 10 install is on isn't nearly as painful as it once was. In fact, assuming you've got a spare hour or so, it's actually a very simple process. But one question remains: Should you clone the existing drive to the new one or do a clean install?
That's what one Windows Central Forums member is asking.
In the case above, the advice would always be to clean install. Personally, that would be the approach I would, and always do take. Cloning software is pretty good, but I've had problems with cloned drives in the past. Clean installs and then reinstating apps and data has always worked the best.
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