I recently got myself a SSD (crucial mx100 256gb) and i switched from a HDD to a SSD. The transition was pleasant and harmless.
Before, when i was on my HDD, when installing windows 7, i had a partition made(HDD was 1tb, i made a partition of 90gb), so when i needed to change or reinstall my operating system, i could have some place to back up to. I upgraded to Windows 8.1
Now when on the SSD, i had no need for the partition anymore, so i transfered all of my data to the bigger, now empty, part of the HDD and then deleted the 90gb partition. After that i tried expanding the 1tb-90gb partition to its full size using a program Partition Magic (i think). It prompted a restart so I did it. After restarting, i started getting 0xc000000b errors at startup, saying windows 8 needed repairing. So i tried refreshing, formating and reinstalling. None of that worked.
Now that was yesterday, today morning i got the idea(which was pretty logical), that the problem is not in the SSD but the HDD so i disconnected it (by removing the power cable from it). And then everything started working again.
When my windows was crashing, i used the repair tools and i saw while using the file explorer, that i could still put files on the "broken" hdd, so its not totally blocked out. Right now when writing this post i have it disconnected but im going to connect it once and try to repair it using tools. If that doesnt work, I'll disconnect the HDD again and download a bootable partition manager and try to use that to fix the HDD.
While im doing all that i thought id ask for your opinion while i do this. Im not gonna do it right away, ill wait for an hour or two so if the idea that i have is very stupid, you can post here and i wont do it.
Do you have any recommendations for me(what programs to use, or should i just give the HDD to a professional to fix)
Before, when i was on my HDD, when installing windows 7, i had a partition made(HDD was 1tb, i made a partition of 90gb), so when i needed to change or reinstall my operating system, i could have some place to back up to. I upgraded to Windows 8.1
Now when on the SSD, i had no need for the partition anymore, so i transfered all of my data to the bigger, now empty, part of the HDD and then deleted the 90gb partition. After that i tried expanding the 1tb-90gb partition to its full size using a program Partition Magic (i think). It prompted a restart so I did it. After restarting, i started getting 0xc000000b errors at startup, saying windows 8 needed repairing. So i tried refreshing, formating and reinstalling. None of that worked.
Now that was yesterday, today morning i got the idea(which was pretty logical), that the problem is not in the SSD but the HDD so i disconnected it (by removing the power cable from it). And then everything started working again.
When my windows was crashing, i used the repair tools and i saw while using the file explorer, that i could still put files on the "broken" hdd, so its not totally blocked out. Right now when writing this post i have it disconnected but im going to connect it once and try to repair it using tools. If that doesnt work, I'll disconnect the HDD again and download a bootable partition manager and try to use that to fix the HDD.
While im doing all that i thought id ask for your opinion while i do this. Im not gonna do it right away, ill wait for an hour or two so if the idea that i have is very stupid, you can post here and i wont do it.
Do you have any recommendations for me(what programs to use, or should i just give the HDD to a professional to fix)