SSD Windows install failed

[maniacalpha1-1]

Right now I have 3 SSDs, a 60gB Vertex 3 and 2 128 GB Vertex 4s.

Anyway, I had Windows 7 on the Vertex 3 at first, and then at least 6 months ago, it failed with a BSOD and wouldn't reboot. So I formatted the drive, and reinstalled, which seemingly worked but it would not reboot. So I put windows on one of the 128s, put games on the 60, which has worked.

I am about to build a new system with a 4690k and I wonder what might have caused it to fail for windows but not for games, and if it may work with windows 8. Any ideas?

 

[Cerb]

All of your drives being pre-Toshiba OCZs would be my diagnosis. Use Samsung, Sandisk, Crucial, Plextor/Lite-On, or Intel, in your new build.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

My Vertex 3 had bad blocks that caused all sorts of fun intermittent problems like you describe.

 

[Elixer]

You must secure erase the SSD when you start getting these type of errors, a simple format won't do anything.

Having said that, it seems once they start getting these type of issues, then it is time to get a new SSD, and then leave the old ones for non-important data.

 

[KingFatty]

The error in windows, but success in games, may be to random chance, where both had errors and you were unlucky to encounter the error with windows.

What I mean is that you probably have an error in the games somewhere, but just haven't been unlucky enough to access that data yet. For example, it could be located on the area of a game that has a particular sound file you haven't played, or maybe an obscure graphical texture you haven't tried to load yet. Or, you did load it, but the error was just not very noticeable because it looked/sounded funny, but still played fine. But that same type of corruption/error in windows causes catastrophic failure, just by nature of what you install on the questionable drive.

But that's a good use for the questionable drive, because you don't mind if you crash a game because you just reinstall it.

 

[Z15CAM]

First learn to prepare your SSD using Diskpart That Partitioning the way you want it and Aligning.
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When installing Win ensure your Ram is running at the lowest timing specs and best to run a DOS MEM Test or the WIM File will never extract properly and load with errors.

The MB should only have the Video Card mounted. Then ad your other peripherals one at at time to load drivers.

Run ERUNT Registry BackUp with about every reboot what loading your Drivers and Apps.

Suggest you learn how to use Symantec DOS GHOST 8 Corp. It's a DOS App and only 1.35 MB's and available from about any University or Collage BBS site. BEST BACKUP Utility on the PLANET as long as you know how to partition 32GB Fat 32 Volumes thru Diskpart or old Win98 FDisk.

All you have to learn is to Boot DOS and you have control over Microsoft, Lunix and Free BSD OS's.

GHOST SERVER v8 Corp_Bld 8.0.0.984 -Google search and GET IT - But all you need is that 1.34MB DOS GHOST.EXE app ;o)

 

[Cerb]

...or, get a new SSD, and use a Win7 SP1 or newer disc/ISO (will align to 1MB), with only the OS target SSD and OS media devices connected.

 

[Coup27]

All of your drives being pre-Toshiba OCZs would be my diagnosis. Use Samsung, Sandisk, Crucial, Plextor/Lite-On, or Intel, in your new build.

I would go along with this. Pre-Toshiba OCZ drives were pretty horrendous.