- Nov 24, 2011
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Hi,
Context of my story:
I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop (MSI GS70 2PE-290NL). I have bought the laptop with 2 SSD's, because there weren't any with 3 SSD's in my country. I have sold the 2 SSD inside, and bought 3 Samsung EVO 840 SSD's instead. To change hardware, I had to break the warranty seal.. I know, bad move, but so far I've never had to use warranty on a laptop or such before.
It worked a while in RAID, but somehow the controller didn't see a certain SSD sometimes, which instantly broke the RAID-array, making it unable to fix. Only fix was to create a new RAID-array and reïnstall Windows. Of course I lost all data, but since then I've always kept my back-ups up to date. The RAID arrays broke a few more times, but it wasn't the same SSD which was kicked out everytime, so I didn't think of a faulty SSD, rather a faulty storage controller.
At this point I decided to use AHCI setup, with 3 seperate volumes, each on every SSD. On the main SSD I enabled Samsung's Rapid Mode. On other SSD I installed software, and one for Virtual Machine purposes.
Anyway, this lasted a couple of months. Out of nowhere, it didn't see my main SSD anymore, which contained Windows. I tried everything, but only after tearing up my laptop, and actually cutting the power (battery is build in), it somehow started up again.
This also worked a couple of months, untill now.
Problem:
I was on school, had my iPhone connected to charge. I had just booted my laptop to enable the power to charge. I clearly saw it was booted and was on logon screen. I closed the lit (set to "Do Nothing"). And let is charge while paying attention to my class. At a sudden point my iPhone started vibrating with no messages. It turns out it was a "Power connected"/"Power disconnected" vibration. My laptop was somehow in a loop where it booted, got a bluescreen and rebooted.
The bluescreen only gave the error "NTFS_FILE_ERROR (CLFS.SYS)"
Now I have googled a bit and it stated that it could be a change of hardware, or a defect hardware. Most of them had something with the HDD.
I arrived home and created a bootable USB (Windows 8.1 Pro install) just to see if all disks are seen in EUFI-mode and maybe the CLFS.SYS was fixable by Windows restore tools. However, the same blue-screen error occures when I boot on the USB! I made it extremely sure that it booted on the USB, instead of on the SSD, but still got a BSOD.
Someone suggested I should do a memtest, because he thought someone had the same problem with bad memory. I did the test (booted Hiren's on legacy mode) and got no errors. RAM is good.
I don't know what I could do next, does anyone have advice, or experience with a similar problem?
Thanks for reading
TL;DR
Laptop: MSI-GS70 2PE-290NL
BSOD: "NTFS_FILE_ERROR (CLFS.SYS)"
Booting the laptop in either Windows on SSD or Windows installer on USB, the device gives the same BSOD. I haven't changed any hardware, the problem occured the first time when the laptop was on. It got a BSOD and got in a loop. So far I haven't been able to boot it properly.
Context of my story:
I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop (MSI GS70 2PE-290NL). I have bought the laptop with 2 SSD's, because there weren't any with 3 SSD's in my country. I have sold the 2 SSD inside, and bought 3 Samsung EVO 840 SSD's instead. To change hardware, I had to break the warranty seal.. I know, bad move, but so far I've never had to use warranty on a laptop or such before.
It worked a while in RAID, but somehow the controller didn't see a certain SSD sometimes, which instantly broke the RAID-array, making it unable to fix. Only fix was to create a new RAID-array and reïnstall Windows. Of course I lost all data, but since then I've always kept my back-ups up to date. The RAID arrays broke a few more times, but it wasn't the same SSD which was kicked out everytime, so I didn't think of a faulty SSD, rather a faulty storage controller.
At this point I decided to use AHCI setup, with 3 seperate volumes, each on every SSD. On the main SSD I enabled Samsung's Rapid Mode. On other SSD I installed software, and one for Virtual Machine purposes.
Anyway, this lasted a couple of months. Out of nowhere, it didn't see my main SSD anymore, which contained Windows. I tried everything, but only after tearing up my laptop, and actually cutting the power (battery is build in), it somehow started up again.
This also worked a couple of months, untill now.
Problem:
I was on school, had my iPhone connected to charge. I had just booted my laptop to enable the power to charge. I clearly saw it was booted and was on logon screen. I closed the lit (set to "Do Nothing"). And let is charge while paying attention to my class. At a sudden point my iPhone started vibrating with no messages. It turns out it was a "Power connected"/"Power disconnected" vibration. My laptop was somehow in a loop where it booted, got a bluescreen and rebooted.
The bluescreen only gave the error "NTFS_FILE_ERROR (CLFS.SYS)"
Now I have googled a bit and it stated that it could be a change of hardware, or a defect hardware. Most of them had something with the HDD.
I arrived home and created a bootable USB (Windows 8.1 Pro install) just to see if all disks are seen in EUFI-mode and maybe the CLFS.SYS was fixable by Windows restore tools. However, the same blue-screen error occures when I boot on the USB! I made it extremely sure that it booted on the USB, instead of on the SSD, but still got a BSOD.
Someone suggested I should do a memtest, because he thought someone had the same problem with bad memory. I did the test (booted Hiren's on legacy mode) and got no errors. RAM is good.
I don't know what I could do next, does anyone have advice, or experience with a similar problem?
Thanks for reading
TL;DR
Laptop: MSI-GS70 2PE-290NL
BSOD: "NTFS_FILE_ERROR (CLFS.SYS)"
Booting the laptop in either Windows on SSD or Windows installer on USB, the device gives the same BSOD. I haven't changed any hardware, the problem occured the first time when the laptop was on. It got a BSOD and got in a loop. So far I haven't been able to boot it properly.
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