Is my SSD Dying? 200GB missing

[AdsSnowball]

I have had an OCZ Revo Drive 3 x2 PCI-e 240GB SSD for a few years now. My PC randomly froze the other week (after doing some Windows 7 updates, could just be a coincidence) and after a hard reboot the PC would not boot into the OS; after a bit of diagnosing I noticed the primary partition somehow showed up as RAW. Long story short; I reformatted the OS and upgraded to Win10. This worked for a few days then it would not boot again but the partition was still NTFS. Further diagnosing looked like it was incorrectly configured UEFI BIOS (changed first boot option to Windows boot loader instead of UEFI HDD, even though it worked for a few days), fixed the problem.

I have noticed today however that the drive is almost full (15.8GB of 223GB). That cannot be right. I point everything towards a mechanical drive and have no paging file and disabled system restore. I ran WinDirStat (included screenshot) and it shows that the drive is 39.8GB, not 223GB. Is this dying or have I effed it up by trying to repair my OS (things like CHKDSK /R etc.)?

Can any one shed any light on my problem?

Kind regards

-Adam

 

[DavidE]

In the WinDirStat menu,

In Options select on Show Unknown and see if that makes a difference in what is displayed.
You could also select Show Free Space and see what that does.

 

[AdsSnowball]

Hi DavidE

Yeah, that's different.

 

[AdsSnowball]

This should be a bit more helpful.

 

[DavidE]

Try WizTree (free), it often shows files WinDirStat can't.
They have a portable zip available, no install.

Antibody Software - WizTree finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive

 

[AdsSnowball]

WizTree does not look like it shows much.

WinDirStat however is showing 167.3GB of unknown. What's that all about? Is there a way get that back?

 

[AddRAM]

Salvage your data, reinstall Windows 7, it`s time.

 

[AdsSnowball]

This build is less than 1 week old...
Plus all my data is on the mechanical drive anyway, but still...

 

[AdsSnowball]

And if that is in fact the only recourse, what have I done in that short time to cause this. I have literally just installed Drivers, updates, Steam, GOG Galaxy and played Witcher 3 a little.

 

[DavidE]

If WinDirStat and WizTree can't show files correctly,
from what i've read you might need to boot the PC with a Linux bootable CD/USB to try and find where all the "unknown" space is used.
You also have Win 10, so that might make a difference.

I've never had to use Linux for such a problem, so i can't help with that.
You can wait for others that have experience with that to post here.

 

[AdsSnowball]

Fair enough. Thanks for the input.

 

[DavidE]

Sorry I can't help from here, i asked for more help!

If i had this problem, i'd want to know where the space is used and why.

 

[DavidE]

And if that is in fact the only recourse, what have I done in that short time to cause this. I have literally just installed Drivers, updates, Steam, GOG Galaxy and played Witcher 3 a little.

Does this mean you don't use any security programs such as a real-time Anti-Virus program ?
If that's the case, you might want to start scanning for malware/viruses.
You could start with Windows Defender Offline:
What is Windows Defender Offline? - Windows Help

 

[AddRAM]

Post me a full shot of Disk Management.

 

[AdsSnowball]

Attached Disk Management screenshot.

 

[AddRAM]

I know it`s not much but did you delete your windows.old folder yet ?

Since you have upgraded to 10, you can now do a clean install of 10 and it will activate, I would do that.

If you do a new install, please unplug your data drive.

What is this fascination with Raid ?????

It`s more of a rhetorical question, because there is no need for it with an ssd,, what are you gaining ?

Especially with this.

OCZ RevoDrive 3 (EOL) PCI Express (PCIe) SSD

 

[AdsSnowball]

Yeah, did that already, plus used windows disk clean-up to remove old windows update & pre-Windows 10 1511

 

[AdsSnowball]

I guess I need to elaborate my 'to cut a story short'. I installed Windows 7 again on another SSD, upgraded that to Windows 10, then reformatted the OCZ, then installed Windows 10 onto that, then upgraded to 1511.

 

[AddRAM]

so now you have 1 OCZ with windows 10 installed on that, and your 2 Raptors in Raid, do I have that correct ?

Let`s see if Partition Wizard shows the same thing windows shows.

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The X2 in the descrip of the ssd threw me off, but I see it`s just part of it`s name

 

[whs]

Here is one of my tuts that shows you how to produce and apply a live Linux USB stick. It was made for a slightly different purpose but could be helpful in your case.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/287439-emergency-kit-save-your-files-dead-os.html