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Multiple System Crashes

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by Almost Nearly Sociable, Feb 18, 2022.

  1. Almost Nearly Sociable

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    Recently, I had a new SSD hard drive installed. It is much faster than my old mechanical drive, but my old drive was 2 TB. I had to save my content to an eternal hard drive and planned to put the files back on my pc later. The problem is that as I copied files, my pc would crash. A report to Windows would be generated and the process of checking and repairing the pc began. In most of these attempts to recover, my pc could not because of bad sectors. I even tried just resetting the pc, but that did not work either. In all cases, I finally had to reformat the disk and reinstall windows from a USB boot drive and start all over again w/o savings IDs and passwords, etc. The system would always crash when I tried to copy a certain large file, 57.6 GB, back to the PC. The smaller files copied easily. I cannot break down this file as it is a video file and the movies on it have operational files to run the movies and so must be kept together.
    I am just curious as to why Windows crashes when I try to copy these files? I am a bit afraid to start copying files again until I learn more. I have attached my system information.
    Cordially Yours, Dave
     

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  2. Tony D

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    It may be bad sectors on the original hard drive.
    In your attachment, which disk is which? I don't see a 2 TB drive.
     
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    The 2 TB drive was replaced by the current SDD. The 2 TB drive sits in my closet. I never had any trouble with the 2 TB mechanical HD, I just wanted more speed. But now with the new drive, I crash whenever I transfer a large file. I don't understand, the drive was reformatted each time I loaded the Win OS back on, wouldn't bad sectors show up then?
     
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    I see two drives C and D. Is one of them the new SSD?
    What's the other?
    Anyway, your system, which I assume is running from the newly installed SSD, crashes whenever you transfer a large file.

    Thought 1) If it's the same file each time, I'm wondering if there is a problem with that file.
    Thought 2) If you're connecting the source file via a SATA to USB adapter to your computer, the adapter may be failing to sustain the long transfer. I've seen that before.
     
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    D drive is just my ext HD, I happened to have it connected when I took the snip. C drive is the new SSD.
    Thought 1) That may be, I'm afraid to try it again though. It is such a hassle to reset everything after the reinstallation.
    Thought 2) That is a bit over my head. All I know is that I am transferring that large file from my Ext HD to my PC.
    In a while I will slowly transfer my small files back to the PC and leave the large ones for later or maybe not at all.
     
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    It's extremely unlikely that the SSD or the computer is the actual problem. Especially given that you can reload Windows on it with no problem. What's probably happening, is what Tony mentioned. That is, a problem with that large file, or a problem with the mechanical drive. That would cause the computer to crash, go into Recovery mode, and then finding bad sectors on the mechanical drive.

    Also, the C drive should be your SSD, so what is that E drive? Is it a partition of the C SSD drive? You said your external was 2tb and that is what the E?, D? drive is, but the D drive showing isn't 2TB. I'm confused.
     
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    I solved the situation by simply deleting the large file, just in case it was bad. I will continue to transfer the other files one at a time, slowly.
    "Also, the C drive should be your SSD, so what is that E drive? Is it a partition of the C SSD drive? You said your external was 2tb and that is what the E?, D? Drive is, but the D drive showing isn't 2 TB. I'm confused"
    My C drive is my new SSD drive. There are no partitions on it. As far as the 2 TB drive is concerned, it is my old mechanical drive which now sits in my closet unused. The other drives you see are my external Hard Drive of 500 MB's which changes letter label every time I have to reapply Windows. Hopefully that has stopped now.
    Thanks.
     
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    ....related question, I have a 2 TB USB drive ordered to be delivered soon. What I planned to do with it is use it as another backup by having Windows put the mirror image of the PC on it. I am doing this just in case I have any more failures and even my SSD Ext hard drive could fail at some point too. I presume the image will fit on the USB and that I would be able to reboot with it if I have another failure? Furthermore, I have not had much experience with this, so I thought I had better ask. Also, will the mirror image include everything that is hooked up to the PC (including my Ext hard drive) or will it only capture what is actually on the PC itself?
    Thanks
     
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    Note: I will put this under a new question since it is a new discussion.
     

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