Fresh install of 7 on new Samsung 840 Pro SSD, I reformatted my old SSD and made it F:
I installed maybe 5 utilities on it and I had rebooted several times for various things, no issues.
I did AMD Catalyst 13.4 Southbridge update via: 13-4_vista_win7_win8_32-64_sb.exe and I let it upgrade anything it was able to.
I rebooted after and up pops chkdsk needing to check F: for consistency, eventually I let it go, not much on it.
It mentioned some issues, was too fast to see, then:
It said invaild security ID using default for about 1200 files and ended.
Windows comes up and F: works (I had skipped that scan but F: was not usable if I did)
But 2 of the utilities I had just installed on the reformatted drive were GONE. (recovered in many useless subdirs of found.000 now available on the F: drive)
Why did this occur, and what steps do I need to take so it doesn't again?
I have installed 7 a number of times, and this has never happened before.
I had run no tweaking utilities whatsoever, did everything manually so far, I got nothing to point at but the SB install, because I had just rebooted after adding the video driver (Catalyst, using the latest FROM my video card's manufacturer's website) and chipset driver was next.
I would have made a better thread title but was and couldn't think of one.
TRIM is checked as enabled before this issue came up, also.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.
Just got back and now on a reboot after copying some files over to another wiped hard drive, it's chkdsk integrity check on a reboot after some more driver updates, I skipped the check, drive is not usable.
What is going on?
Going through chkdsk /f on the E: that was asking for a check, but doing it with 7 up and running and yeah found a lot of orphans and looks like it is replacing invalid security ID with default security id for every single file, I know this won't end well.
Not finding anything useful elsewhere on this as this just goes on and on, I do have what I copied over backed up, so this time not really losing anything permanently, but this is completely unstable!
I have an external drive that has lots of data I use for backup and if I add it into the mix it worked once but got in Device Manger a !'d driver and I went and installed it, then rebooted, it then showed briefly in my file manager then vanished as a letter and wouldn't show back up and 7 asked to FORMAT it....
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.
I do not use a RAID but I fear this is IDE/Raid BIOS settings that caused the issue at install, going to re-wipe this SSD and try Linux Mint 14 to verify hardware is fine and see how fast that is on higher end hardware.
Any other theories or comments welcomed.
Just noting that I had HPET and IOMMU enabled also, [editing from within Linux Mint 14 live DVD which booted without incident.]
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.
So LM14 installed in 6 mins, only weirdness: if I add the external USB drive it wasn't able to mount it, but I quickly put it on my wife's PC and verified it's there and works fine, and a sigh of relief!
LM14 is really fast, shame on Winbloat! Boots in like 12 secs.
Wondering if downloading that Win 7 ultimate SP1 image (legit download site) was a bad idea and something on it, unexpected, fouled things up, won't be using on the next install, just in case.
So far my take away from this is never let CHKDSK check integrity after rebooting and having no reason for it running.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: custom built OS: Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601 CPU: AMD Phenom 9650 QuadCore, revision DR-B3 Motherboard: ASUS M4A78 Memory: 5 GB yes I run 2x 2GB and 1x 1GB, different brand, spank me. Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512 Mb, unknown manufacturer. Sound Card: Crappy Realtek Integrated Audio Monitor(s) Displays: Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P Screen Resolution: 1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks! Keyboard: Microsoft, PS/2, white. Mouse: Optical, logitec. PSU: whatever, around 450w Case: Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old Cooling: CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy Hard Drives: (1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD Internet Speed: effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up Browser: Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome :P Antivirus: Avira, free edition. Other Info: Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance".
Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain.
SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.
Hardware wise these drives were all seen as OK, it's related to some driver and/or bios setting, just very weird from out of the blue, about to reboot and tempt it again. :)
Rebooted very quickly and no chkdsk, hadn't been rebooted in about 20 hrs, looks like 2nd redo was fine, I did not use the amd..._sb file this time.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.
Got the external WD drive back working too with USB v3.0 spec, used Renesas driver for an unknown listed in Device Manager + WD SES Device Driver also, which I had added previously.
Was odd, had Renesas listed as a single item (installed it from it's own .exe) until I did that, and the WD external would ONLY work on a USB 2.0 port at that time, I have a USB 3.0 4 port hub, only has 2 USB v3.0's direct off the motherboard in back, hub is new, but worked fine in last build.
Without the Renesas driver actually added for the unknown, the drive wouldn't work even as a 2.0 in a 3.0 port, that was new one on me.
I have had lots of unknowns that functioned anyway like pen drives, so I was ignoring the !'d Unknown.
Clean for once Device Manager screen below:
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built Custom OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU v1.15 (or 1.0F) BIOS was required! Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 Memory: 8G CAS-7 G-Skill DDR3 @1333 (2 fours) [mobo nonOC max rec'd] Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7950 [3 gigs of GDDR5] MSI Twin Frozr model Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio (onboard mobo, ALC-889 chip) Monitor(s) Displays: 2 WS LED Monitors: One LG One Viewsonic Screen Resolution: 1920 by 1080 Keyboard: Logitech G11 Mouse: Logitech M310 Wireless PSU: Corsair TX850 - 850W max, in service since August 2010. Case: Thermaltake Armor A90 Cooling: Thermaltake Spin Q CPU Cooler, in service since August 2010 Hard Drives: SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
SSD for VM and utilities: Adata SX900
7200 RPM SATA HDs for the rest: Hitachi and Seagate Internet Speed: 100 Megabit broadband supposedly upgraded from 50 (Cable) Browser: Pale Moon 64-bit main, also IceDragon, Opera, and Maxthon. Antivirus: Bitdefender Internet Security 2014 suite Other Info: CompTIA A+ certified (220-800 series) in July 2013.