OS is taking hours to boot suddenly, USB and CD booting acting the same

Aloqla · Feb 16, 2015

So my computer was perfectly fine, I recently started to ask the computer to go to sleep instead of turning it off (could be related) but then one day recovering from a sleep it took too long to boot up so i opened the case to check if something moved because SSD (secondary storage kept disconnecting and reconnecting randomly in the past month) i found the data cable for the HD (Main) broken yet still connected, i replaced it but problem still happens.

I inserted Windows CD, it takes about an hour (if not longer) to boot to the repair screen, repair tool says nothing wrong. I did memory analysis , nothing wrong. I wanted to boot from Linux USB to take my files out, it doesn't boot. I'm running out of ideas. i suspect the following:

- Bad Sectors in the main HD (but then why it's taking too long to load the CD?)
- Too much sleep made the RAM screw up (it should've been cleaned upon restart or at least Memory Analysis tool should've detected something)
- a Maleware or virus (but i can't reach the files to clean it, but again why is it related to the CD or USB booting too?)

Any help is appreciated..

hedwar2011 · Feb 16, 2015

Start simple and work up:

Unplug anything and everything from the PC including printers, HDDs, etc and only leave the mouse and keyboard (unless a USB receiver), monitor, power cord, and even the internet connection. Also be sure to remove any thumb drives, jump drives, CDs, DVDs, plugged in. Once you've got that done, go ahead and attempt to reboot again and see what happens. Let us know the outcome.

Aloqla · Feb 18, 2015

hedwar2011 :

Hey, thank u for the reply!

So I did, it seems it's my SSDs, i unplugged them and it worked!
So how do i fix that, or should i start a new submission in different category?

They are in Raid0, Samsung 840 Pro , they are Secondary harddrives so no OS on them just games and files. I tried to plug them as external drives but it won't get recognized and my laptop would freeze. I think the unplugging and plugging back again on my PC might have damaged something inside it. or is it expected after couple of years that SSDs just ..die?

thank u forward,

hedwar2011 · Feb 18, 2015

SSDs (whichever they are) are typically designed to be the boot drive of the computer ltself. Think of them as an oversized flash drive seeing as to how there isn't any moving parts and is simply Flash memory.

HERE is some information in regards to having SSDs in RAID format and tthe pros and cons of it. You might consider changing your setup to have one (or both) of the SSDs as your boot drive and a standard drive as storage.

Aloqla · Feb 18, 2015

hedwar2011 :

Hey, thank you for the reply.

I'm aware what's SSD

and how it works, my problem was..
my SSDs (which are setup as Raid0 for the past 3 years as secondary drives(No OS on it) ) are causing my OS to take forever to boot (even OS booting from CD or USB).
When i took it out and used it as external and plugged it on another computer, it didn't get recognized, heck..it didn't even attempt to recognize it.

Now, what i think caused this is one or more of the following:
- the SSDs in the past few months, kept disappearing and reappearing on my drives list, like they are disconnecting and reconnecting when the computer was running. this might damaged them if it was due to hardware disconnecting.
- a virus or maleware caused them to disappear/appear OR is causing this whole mess.
- the SSDs simply died (they are Samsung 840 Pro if that would mean anything).

hedwar2011 · Feb 18, 2015

Aloqla :

hedwar2011 :

Hey, thank you for the reply.

I'm aware what's SSD

and how it works, my problem was..
my SSDs (which are setup as Raid0 for the past 3 years as secondary drives(No OS on it) ) are causing my OS to take forever to boot (even OS booting from CD or USB).
When i took it out and used it as external and plugged it on another computer, it didn't get recognized, heck..it didn't even attempt to recognize it.

Now, what i think caused this is one or more of the following:
- the SSDs in the past few months, kept disappearing and reappearing on my drives list, like they are disconnecting and reconnecting when the computer was running. this might damaged them if it was due to hardware disconnecting.
- a virus or maleware caused them to disappear/appear OR is causing this whole mess.
- the SSDs simply died (they are Samsung 840 Pro if that would mean anything).

Best source of information is your own gut. With them being aged they truly could have bitten the dust but the failure rate on them is far less than physical structure drives.

The good folks at Overclock.net wrote an article to contend with multiple questions in regards to the failure rate of those specific drives. It can be found HERE.

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