Good day all. Basically I have a 1tb Wd black with 100GB partitioned for boot OS, 800 something for games etc. My friend gave me 128GB SSD so i decided to try it out as my boot drive but i have a growing concern. I removed my cd key from the HDD, and installed windows 8.1 retail onto the SSD, leaving the deactivated OS on the HDD as well in case i ran into problems. What's happening is that when i open any program/window/internet/basically anything, it hangs for a few seconds, saying "not responding" and then functions properly till something else needs to be read. I'm wondering if that's somehow caused because i have the same OS on the HDD and it may be having a conflict of files being read etc or if there was an error with my install etc. before i delete my HDD partition. Help would be much appreciated
2 copies of windows 8 on same system,"not responding" query
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photonboy
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- Jun 20, 2006
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NO.
When the computer boots up it only "sees" the Operating System on the boot drive. The other Windows 8 drive just appears to it as a bunch of folders with data in them.
You can prove this easily by shutting down the PC and disconnecting the HDD.
Your problem is either a hardware or software issue. The SSD may be defective, or the motherboard may even have an issue with it. My OCZ Vertex 4 had a Sandforce controller that was the cause of my intermittent boot and freezing issues. The solution was a different drive.
Another motherboard I had worked fine with a BIOS update.
Since your HDD worked fine I suspect it's related to the SSD itself.
When the computer boots up it only "sees" the Operating System on the boot drive. The other Windows 8 drive just appears to it as a bunch of folders with data in them.
You can prove this easily by shutting down the PC and disconnecting the HDD.
Your problem is either a hardware or software issue. The SSD may be defective, or the motherboard may even have an issue with it. My OCZ Vertex 4 had a Sandforce controller that was the cause of my intermittent boot and freezing issues. The solution was a different drive.
Another motherboard I had worked fine with a BIOS update.
Since your HDD worked fine I suspect it's related to the SSD itself.
How unfortunate 
I know close to nothing about SSDs so i'll read up on them a bit and try to figure this out then. All i did was format it at the win8 installation prompt, same as i usually do with HDDs. The SSD is the Corsair Force GT, and motherboard is Asus P8Z77-V
I know close to nothing about SSDs so i'll read up on them a bit and try to figure this out then. All i did was format it at the win8 installation prompt, same as i usually do with HDDs. The SSD is the Corsair Force GT, and motherboard is Asus P8Z77-VTRENDING THREADS
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