Hey all,
I built my new gaming rig last year. For my OS (8.1 x64) I bought a cheap 60gb ssd. Unfortunately that cheapness has come around to bite me. Every time I boot now during post it will give me a screen with:
"Scanning and repairing drive (\\?\Vollume{a bunch of random hexadecimal stuff with no pattern to it, never the same when I boot})"
When it finally completes and gets to the desktop it can take upwards of 10 minutes for me to actually interact with the desktop, launching apps, start menu, etc. Sometimes I can't even interact with the desktop at all, I can move the mouse but I can't actually do anything. Nothing will highlight when I click on it, cannot open start menu, nothing. So then I have to restart my comp and start the process all over again. Doing research I have found that the issue can be caused by having fast boot enabled. I checked my mobo, the fastboot switch is off, it's off in bios, and it's off in windows; so that is not the issue. I've tried doing a chkdsk and a spotfix multiple times to no avail.
Being that I have no other options I have purchased a new SSD that is way better quality. So my question(s) is this:
If I were to do a direct disc to disc image with clonezilla, can those bad sectors follow to the new drive and cause the same issue?
If so:
Should I just do a fresh install?
If I have to do that is there a way to just copy all the updated drivers I have installed so that I don't have to spend hours redownloading and installing them?
Is there a way I can just copy my desktop to the new os so that I don't have to reinstall all my games and applications to recreate their paths to my storage drives?
Sorry about the novel.
Thanks in advance!
::::::::BONUS QUESTION:::::::
I have heard that putting drives in raid 0 will increase speed and performance. In my research on that for every 1 post somebody swears by it, there are 2 stating you only get a faster load times on launch of application(s). All my games and applications I really want to be fast I already have on an ssd. If what people are saying are true I don't feel that losing 250gb just so my app can launch in 3 seconds instead of 5-6. Are there any in-game performance boosts by doing this; better fps, faster map loads, etc?
I built my new gaming rig last year. For my OS (8.1 x64) I bought a cheap 60gb ssd. Unfortunately that cheapness has come around to bite me. Every time I boot now during post it will give me a screen with:
"Scanning and repairing drive (\\?\Vollume{a bunch of random hexadecimal stuff with no pattern to it, never the same when I boot})"
When it finally completes and gets to the desktop it can take upwards of 10 minutes for me to actually interact with the desktop, launching apps, start menu, etc. Sometimes I can't even interact with the desktop at all, I can move the mouse but I can't actually do anything. Nothing will highlight when I click on it, cannot open start menu, nothing. So then I have to restart my comp and start the process all over again. Doing research I have found that the issue can be caused by having fast boot enabled. I checked my mobo, the fastboot switch is off, it's off in bios, and it's off in windows; so that is not the issue. I've tried doing a chkdsk and a spotfix multiple times to no avail.
Being that I have no other options I have purchased a new SSD that is way better quality. So my question(s) is this:
If I were to do a direct disc to disc image with clonezilla, can those bad sectors follow to the new drive and cause the same issue?
If so:
Should I just do a fresh install?
If I have to do that is there a way to just copy all the updated drivers I have installed so that I don't have to spend hours redownloading and installing them?
Is there a way I can just copy my desktop to the new os so that I don't have to reinstall all my games and applications to recreate their paths to my storage drives?
Sorry about the novel.
Thanks in advance!
::::::::BONUS QUESTION:::::::
I have heard that putting drives in raid 0 will increase speed and performance. In my research on that for every 1 post somebody swears by it, there are 2 stating you only get a faster load times on launch of application(s). All my games and applications I really want to be fast I already have on an ssd. If what people are saying are true I don't feel that losing 250gb just so my app can launch in 3 seconds instead of 5-6. Are there any in-game performance boosts by doing this; better fps, faster map loads, etc?
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