Should I Keep Using My SSD After This Issue (Unallocated Recovery)

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Arvillian

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I have a 240GB SSD (Patriot Blaze). I used it for my main OS installation. I was getting BSOD's once a month abouts, but I have 6 HDD's and many components. I can't say for sure the SSD caused the BSOD's, but one day, I got a blue screen and I couldn't boot from the drive. Eventually, I got ESUS partition recovery to show that the entire drive was unallocated, but lucky was also able to find the partitions and restore them. The SSD functions right now and during Windows boot (from a second, perfect SSD, not the 240GB one), it even fixed orphaned files, indexes, ect. The drive shows no problems, but I'm not using it as a system disk anymore.

Would it be wise to reformat the 240GB SSD and reinstall windows? Could the unallocated issue have been caused by another issue, like the BSOD from another piece of hardware? I really want to use this drive and it's only 1.5 years old (yeah it's past warranty).

Also, in win10 the BSOD was something like "not less than or equal to," but I can't confirm or recall for sure.
 
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Wow that's certainly a lot of drive failures in a short time. The only single factor other than the drives themselves that could remotely influence crashes would be horrific power surges or a failing PSU that is sending bad power to the drives.

Most likely it is just a case of 'when it rains it pours' and it's an unfortunate random occurrence that your drives are all failing at the same time.

If you bought the drives all at the same time and they are from the same batch of production units that would also partly explain it. I had a bank of WD drives go out on me a few weeks ago at work and when I checked the serials they were all from the same production batch.
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That certainly sounds like drive failure to me...it would be very unusual for any other malfunction to totally corrupt the partition scheme.

I wouldn't personally use it, but if you're dead-set on it then the best thing to do is JUST have the OS on the SSD and make sure all other files and programs live on your other storage devices.

That way in the case that the SSD finally bites the dust at least you'll only lose your OS install and not important data.
 
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Arvillian

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Thank you for the response. I will not use it, BUT, over the last month, I've had 3 HDD fails: two have bad sectors and this SSD is just weird. Could something be causing all these malfunctions across the devices? Also, for the first time ever, my rig just froze and I had to hard restart.
 
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Wow that's certainly a lot of drive failures in a short time. The only single factor other than the drives themselves that could remotely influence crashes would be horrific power surges or a failing PSU that is sending bad power to the drives.

Most likely it is just a case of 'when it rains it pours' and it's an unfortunate random occurrence that your drives are all failing at the same time.

If you bought the drives all at the same time and they are from the same batch of production units that would also partly explain it. I had a bank of WD drives go out on me a few weeks ago at work and when I checked the serials they were all from the same production batch.
 
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Arvillian

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I believe you are mostly correct. My SSD is still under warranty so no loss there except inconvenience. I did buy most of these drives when I got a disbursement from school 3 - 4 years ago. Makes sense that some would be failing around same time given the 3-5 year life expediencies listed on many internet sites. Also, I don't have a ground. I use a 2 prong to 3 prong adapter to a power bar. I don't always shut down correctly. I think it's just the law of HDD and SSD technologies + Murphy's Law. Excellent response time man, I really appreciate the insight.... from all of you.
 
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Hopefully you see this.
Are you able to elaborate on how you recovered the partitions? Looks like I am facing the same issues. However, when I have attempted to recover the data, I can't find anything! I've been using FTK Imager, Autopsy, SIFTWorkstation, Kali, EaseUS. But keep coming up short :(
 
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