- Apr 21, 2019
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Hi Guy's/Girl's
Bit of an odd one.
Yesterday my partner's machine blue screened while playing a game (cant remember the error - something system_service_exception).
The only thing i could put it down to was Avast was playing up, couldnt open it, couldnt close it.. just wouldnt respond at all. So after trying (and failing) to uninstall avast both through add/remove programs and through the avast uninstall application i just couldnt get it to uninstall. After a lot of messing about with that i decided a fresh windows install would sort it.
So having tried to reinstall windows i discovered i couldnt format the SSD for a fresh install and just trying to replace the existing install caused an error message.
So i started trying to force a format with DiskPart, with zero luck.. Sometimes with error messages sometimes it would say it had completed, but as soon as i went back to the windows install it still showed as having the partitions and being 65% full on the main partition.
Following that i pulled the drive out of my partners machine and stuck it in mine to try and do a format through disk manager with no luck.. again, always went through the process.. suggested it was finished successfully but open it in explorer and all the folders/files are still there.
I then tried EaseUS - again with no luck but always saying it's been successful.
I then tried it through Linux and still no luck.
After trying to format it several times i just cant get rid of any files/folders. I can still create folders on the drive, add/remove new files to the drive. And the most confusing thing is if i stick it back in the original pc it still boots up ok (albeit still running like a bag of crap).
I've only had it about 10 months so if nobody has any further ideas it'll get sent back and replaced.
Oh and it's a Kingston A400 480GB
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thankyou in advance!
Bit of an odd one.
Yesterday my partner's machine blue screened while playing a game (cant remember the error - something system_service_exception).
The only thing i could put it down to was Avast was playing up, couldnt open it, couldnt close it.. just wouldnt respond at all. So after trying (and failing) to uninstall avast both through add/remove programs and through the avast uninstall application i just couldnt get it to uninstall. After a lot of messing about with that i decided a fresh windows install would sort it.
So having tried to reinstall windows i discovered i couldnt format the SSD for a fresh install and just trying to replace the existing install caused an error message.
So i started trying to force a format with DiskPart, with zero luck.. Sometimes with error messages sometimes it would say it had completed, but as soon as i went back to the windows install it still showed as having the partitions and being 65% full on the main partition.
Following that i pulled the drive out of my partners machine and stuck it in mine to try and do a format through disk manager with no luck.. again, always went through the process.. suggested it was finished successfully but open it in explorer and all the folders/files are still there.
I then tried EaseUS - again with no luck but always saying it's been successful.
I then tried it through Linux and still no luck.
After trying to format it several times i just cant get rid of any files/folders. I can still create folders on the drive, add/remove new files to the drive. And the most confusing thing is if i stick it back in the original pc it still boots up ok (albeit still running like a bag of crap).
I've only had it about 10 months so if nobody has any further ideas it'll get sent back and replaced.
Oh and it's a Kingston A400 480GB
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thankyou in advance!
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