way to test ssd?

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 10:04

Is there a way to test an ssd?

Ssd life comes back as healthy and windows scan disk found no errors, but in the last few days. Games/windows keep crashing and every time windows reboots it does a scan and repairs the drive.

Grrrrr · 17 Dec 2014 at 13:25

Sound like it could be a memory issue rather than ssd...

Which ssd out of interest?

ED209 · 17 Dec 2014 at 13:34

in CMD type the following

sfc /scannow

will check all windows files for corruption and repair them if it can

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 13:36

Vertex 3 iirc

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:09

Yep vertex 3

ED209 said:
in CMD type the following

sfc /scannow

will check all windows files for corruption and repair them if it can

Found errors which it couldn't fix. No idea how to translate the log. And the log is absolutely massive.

Now doing an mdsched

ED209 · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:11

if that's the case reboot in safe mode and give it another try.

if all else fails try a repair from the windows 7 CD\DVD if you have 1 to hand.

after that mostprob a re install would be required

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:30

Thanks think i'll just reinstall. Only has steam games in it anyway.
Mdcheck came back clear.

ED209 · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:42

sounds like the best option.

backup your steam games to a external drive or to a second HDD and format the OS and re install then download the latest drivers.

hope it sorts out your issues

KIA · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:45

Run > eventvwr > Windows Logs > System

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:47

KIA said:
Run > eventvwr > Windows Logs > System

To late 33% installed.

Just no luck atm. Still can't get desktop working. And now this with laptop.

wazza300 · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:01

you have a spare hdd? could install windows to that see if it still crashes?

wouldn't surprise me its faulty if its an ocz ssd though

whats the rest of your components

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 18:02

Not sure this has fixed it, everything taken ages to install.

Alienware m11x r3 so i3 and what ever else it has.

Just installed HD tune to see the speed and after a few seconds it stop and throws up read error.

So ssd broke?

wazza300 · 17 Dec 2014 at 18:13

not sure,could be software bug idk

try atto benchmark see if that completes without any issue

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2014 at 18:22

Atto completed
HD tune found 0.2% bad sectors, but that sounds low enough not to be an issue.

darael · 17 Dec 2014 at 20:02

When did you last secure erase the drive? Is it using the latest firmware? Is your motherboard using the latest BIOS? Are you using the latest chipset drivers?