So my laptop just blue screened on me. It mentioned a "kernal input data error", said it was compiling information and would restart for me.
It restarted and left me with this screen.
If I hit escape a bunch, it will take me to an old school bios start screen, then dump me back to this when I hit any key to continue.
I'm running Windows 8.1. According to the Google's, there are things I can check when it reboots, except it isn't booting.
In reply to RevRico :
Powering down then powering up again gave me a Lenovo flash screen and now just a black screen. Like its wants to load but can't.
Ok, 5 minutes of black screen got me logging in
Chkdsk says the volume bitmap is incorrect. Running another chkdsk now
Second chkdsk showed no problems
I would be highly suspect of that drive. Make sure that you've backed up everything important before you shut it off/put it to sleep again. In the meantime, start shopping for a new SSD to replace it.
I wouldn't necessarily suspect the drive, perfectly healthy drives can host filesystem damage (most commonly caused by kernel-level crashes like the BSOD, or power loss).
First place, check the drive's SMART stats. A failure message means failure but a pass doesn't mean much. You can drill down on the detailed stats to get more info. If it all looks good, run a new long self-test. And of course make sure you have backups.
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GameboyRMH said:I wouldn't necessarily suspect the drive, perfectly healthy drives can host filesystem damage (most commonly caused by kernel-level crashes like the BSOD, or power loss).
First place, check the drive's SMART stats. A failure message means failure but a pass doesn't mean much. You can drill down on the detailed stats to get more info. If it all looks good, run a new long self-test. And of course make sure you have backups.
Yes this. And who doesn't like an excuse to get a SSD?? It makes older computers so much faster.
Yes this. And who doesn't like an excuse to get a SSD?? It makes older computers so much faster.
I've performed the upgrade for work and on the side and almost every time I record the numbers. Consistently 80% off of the load time. Little did we know through the malaise era (post multi-core/thread - pre-SSD) that all those processor upgrades and FSB upgrades were completely ignoring the real bottleneck: spinning drives.
P3PPY said:Yes this. And who doesn't like an excuse to get a SSD?? It makes older computers so much faster.
I've performed the upgrade for work and on the side and almost every time I record the numbers. Consistently 80% off of the load time. Little did we know through the malaise era (post multi-core/thread - pre-SSD) that all those processor upgrades and FSB upgrades were completely ignoring the real bottleneck: spinning drives.
Truth. I’ve been running old mac’s for years just by replacing the drives with ssd’s and maxing ram.
I'm not doing an ssd replacement.
1tb drives are still far too expensive and unreliable, and I don't have the ports for micro drives.
10,000 rpm Western digital black is most likely in my future.
Not much to add, but you might want to run chkdsk /r.
If you have the Windows installation media, you can also boot to that (or download Easy Recovery Essentials to create a boot disk) and run chkdsk /r with your hard drive dismounted.
I have had drives that ran a clean chkdsk with the hard drive mounted that had errors detected and fixed when the drive was scanned while dismounted.
In reply to RevRico :
Pretty much every SSD is far more reliable than any spinning drive including that 10k WD Drive.
mattm said:In reply to RevRico :
Pretty much every SSD is far more reliable than any spinning drive including that 10k WD Drive.
So far SSDs have generally shown failure rates almost identical to hard drives. The difference is recoverability - with an SSD the normal failure mode is a a sudden system freeze out of nowhere followed by all data being completely inaccessible, while hard drives tend to telegraph their failures in SMART stats and fail in user-recoverable ways. So backups are much more important with SSDs. Too many Average Joe users have their data protected only by the forgiving failure mode of modern hard drives and some luck.
I haven't heard of these numbers about them being unreliable. I'm open to learning. Even if so, I use my computer in order to get stuff done, so 80% reduced load time + a BUP = me happy.
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/review/ssd-hard-drives/samsung-860-evo-review-3670806/
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