System Failure

[hostelo]

Hi.

All of a sudden my computer after 1 hour freezes and crashes completely.
I get a black screen of death with error code 0xc000000e Recovery Screen

After i hit enter i got another message saying Your PC needs to be repaired. The application or operting system couldnt be loaded because a requiered file is missing or contains errors. File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Error code: 0cx000000e

After the error happens and I restart, the main hard drive will not show up and I have to restart again for it to show up.

SO i just went ahead and formatted the PC and reinstalled windows 7 from scratch.

After an hour or less the same thing happened again and also when I reboot the computer asks me to choose which windows 7 I want to log into. Why is this showing up if I formatted the disc completely (Deleted and created New disc while i was reinstalling windows 7)

My main drive is a Crucial m4 SDD 2.5 128GB Sata

I have 4 other drives with over 2tb each but i use this for files. Windows is installed on just the crucial HD


what is going on here?!?!?!

please help!!!

 

[hostelo]

just adding here the zip file generated with the SF Diagnostic Tool just in case its needed

 

[Kaktussoft]

Post disk management screenshot please

 

[hostelo]

it crashed again and now i got a BOOTMGR is missing error

is my brand new SDD Dead?

Help!!!


here you go kaktussoft

 

[hostelo]

i see a lot of primary partitions there and that may be the case??

its supposed to be only C: where i have windows installed and the other HD are just for files I have

BTW, I did upgrade to Windows 8 Release Preview 64bit , did not like it so I decided to reformat my PC back to windows 7 ultimate 64bit. Maybe windows 8 screwed up my bios, hds or something?

sorry for all the posts just trying to give much details as possible

 

[Kaktussoft]

Mark all partitions as INACTIVE (many are active in screenshot). Leave "system reserved" active!
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html

Open disk management again and see if "system reserved" is really the only active partition. Now you are very sure that's the only active partition and it should boot from that partition.

 

[Kaktussoft]

In elevated command prompt:

diskpart
select volume O
inactive
select volume N
inactive
select volume H
inactive
exit

 

[hostelo]

ok kaktu I did all the steps and I think it is correct now?
pic below:

so what do I do now? any way i could test this is working correctly?
or just use it?

thankf for all the help btw

 

[Kaktussoft]

just test if problems are gone. And post back if it fixed your problem

 

[hostelo]

reset the computer left it on....after a while i got:

 

[Kaktussoft]

reset the computer left it on....after a while i got:

But sometimes it boots fine?

 

[Kaktussoft]

There is somehting wrong with that disk. Normally it tries another disk that has an ACTIVE primary partition and boots from it. And that partition doesn't have a bootmgr. That was the original failure. Now there is only one primary partition that's active. But it can't find the disk.

Have to go... back in 4 hours

 

[hostelo]

yeah im starting to think there is a problem with the SSD Disc, it seems it works for a while then fails and the computer tries to boot from somewhere else and there is nothing to boot from so it gives this error.
Cause remember i mentioned that sometimes the disc does not show up at all and after i reset it shows up.

I also tried it with all the other HD's disconnected from the computer and just the main SSD connected and still gave me the same problem.

At least it has warranty.

what are your thoughts?

Thanks for all the help!!!

 

[hostelo]

reset the computer left it on....after a while i got:

But sometimes it boots fine?

yeah this was booted, windows was running fine, i left the computer and came back 45min later and this was showing

 

[Kaktussoft]

yeah im starting to think there is a problem with the SSD Disc, it seems it works for a while then fails and the computer tries to boot from somewhere else and there is nothing to boot from so it gives this error.
Cause remember i mentioned that sometimes the disc does not show up at all and after i reset it shows up.

I also tried it with all the other HD's disconnected from the computer and just the main SSD connected and still gave me the same problem.

At least it has warranty.

what are your thoughts?

Thanks for all the help!!!

That's just what I wanna say! It doesn't show up in BIOS sometimes? And other HDD's show up always? connect ssd to another sata-port... so swap it with a hdd

 

[Kaktussoft]

reset the computer left it on....after a while i got:

But sometimes it boots fine?

yeah this was booted, windows was running fine, i left the computer and came back 45min later and this was showing

ssd was inaccessable so win7 crashed and did an automatic reboot. It failed because it still doesn't see it.

 

[Kaktussoft]

How did you disconnect other HDD's? Just disconnected the sata cable or also the power cable? disconnect the power cables to HDD's as well. Maybe your power supply isn't capable to give enough power to keep drives spinning and give ssd power

 

[hostelo]

i disconnected both the sata and power cables
i have a 750w Corsair Power Supply with those same drives for over 2 years si I dont think that could be the case.

when my computer starts up my asus mb detects the drive its gonna boot from and shows it then boots.
Sometimes in the last few days it did not show up and i had to reset the pc for it to show up

the other hds always showed up in my computer

i swapped the ports on the motherboard as well

i did not check/switch the sata cable itself though, maybe thats it (I hope)

honestly I gave up and sent it in to be fixed/checked

what do you think?

 

[Kaktussoft]

Attach ssd with another cable and to another sata port. Also use another power cable.
Just disconnect sata cable and power on the HDD side and put them in SSD.

That cables and sata controller do work all the time!
Post results

 

[emaraszek]

Perhaps a firmware update on the SSD could be beneficial. The latest firmware for the crucial m4 is located at the following link:

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/000F/m4_SSD_Firmware_Update_Utility_000F.zip

Refer to the update guide at the following link for a step-by-step tutorial on how to upgrade the firmware:

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/000F/Utility_User_Guide.pdf

These updates have been known to address various reliability issues common to SSDs. I personally don't have a Crucial SSD but I updated the firmware on my OCZ SSD to address performance issues.