Am I going crazy

[HiVizMan]

SSD die and when they do it is normally pretty sudden.

[Nackers]

yer it was pretty sudden, one minite it was going a trip down the road for some milk later and it was bundied.. do you think my AVG could of been causing some of my other troubles, seems to be after i installed and up graded that was about the time it all started,, is the mircosoft/windows AV ok for P2P shares...Thanks heaps.

[HiVizMan]

I am a huge fan of the Microsoft Essentials AV software. So may be a bit biased. Not a huge fan of Microsoft as a rule mind you.

[Jim-M4EZ]

Did you try performing a Secure Erase, & a FW Update (v.1.5) on the Vertex4 ...
... & then doing a Fresh Install of Win7 on the V4 SSD ?

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_too...and_Agility_4/

You can use the OCZ Toolbox - v.3.02.14 - "if" you have Win7 on another drive (not Vert4) that you can boot from ...
... just install the Toolbox on the other Win7 drive, & perform the SE & FW update(s) on the Vert4 from there ...

If you do not have a 2nd Win7 boot drive in the system, you can use the Linux Tools (from OCZ) for the SE & FW update.

... just a thought; might be worth a try ...

fwiw - ditto to MS Security Essentials ...

[Nackers]

I don't have either.. And old mate wont let me use his Brand Name still under warranty.... Was thinking of getting a Seagate 1TB Barracuda HDD to get my rig up and going for now,, It's going to take a couple weeks to get my replacement SSD back,, And I cant keep going up to me mates to use his pc couple times a day.. I read some where that I can copy windows over to the SSD later,, Is that true.. OR should I have been running both from the start,, Thanks heaps.

[HiVizMan]

What you can do is make a clone of your OS and then copy that clone to the SSD.

If you are desperate to have a working system just to do stuff, you can boot from a live CD or USB stick. I ran my one OS from a USB for a week while I waited for some parts to arrive.

[Jim-M4EZ]

... OR should I have been running both from the start,,

fwiw - I like to set my systems up as dual boot for just this reason ...
... SSD for the OS & programs / HDD for OS & data ...
... if you run across a problem on one drive/OS, then just boot from the other - will keep you up & running ...

With a single boot SSD set-up, you might want to look into the OCZ Linux Tools v.3.20.4 - very simple really ...
... just create a USB or CD for the Linux Tools, & boot from that - great for Secure Erasing & FW Updates on a SSD single boot system.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...-for-OCZ-SSD-s

... a Secure Erase along with a Fresh Install of the OS on the SSD drive can / has solved allot of issues, for allot of folks ...
Best of Luck with it ...

[Nackers]

Cool mate, Ill do all that when i get it back,, I just installed a Western Digital HDD to get me going,, so i'm up and running again,, no troubles yet touch wood,, some of the win updates are giving me the ****s tho,,, thanks

[Shawnnepc]

BTW. It actually sounds like you have a root kit in the boot sector of the SSD.

If you do a secure erase it may remove it.

After you load windows on your new 1TB connect the SSD and run this tool:

http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363

[Nackers]

ok i'll give that a go, if they send it back and not a new one,, I have done a rootkit scan with the extra scaners that AVG tech support sent me to use before it stopped working.. Thanks heaps