Not sure which sub-forum to put this in...
Specs: highly modified Dell XPS 8500 (only Mobo and i5 is stock anymore). PSU is plenty big, 16 gb memory, HD7870 gpu.
I run Win7-64 bit off of an mSATA card (C Drive) on the mobo. I have a Samsung 840 EVO (D Drive) as my gaming/storage drive and an physical harddrive as a download/game install file/backup drive.
I have had this problem a few times before.
Every time I shut down it takes longer and longer. Eventually it hits 90 seconds or so.
The next time I boot up after the super long shutdown, my D Drive SSD isn't detected and Ihave to boot up in safe mode. I run Active Partition Magic, the drive is there, but the Boot Sector Information is messed up.
Specifically: $MFT StartCLuster will have a number like 1000000000000 versus 64287 (made up numbers). I can copy the backup Boot Sector Info the drive keeps and all goes back to normal.
I remember tweaking a ton of stuff when I first got the mSATA and SSD, but the problem surfaced long after that. It almost seems like something related to TRIM (which I don't completely understand) or Intel Rapid Storage.
I'm 99.9% sure there are no viruses.
Any suggestions? My solution has been to not shutdown and use Active Partition Recovery when it doesn't work.
Specs: highly modified Dell XPS 8500 (only Mobo and i5 is stock anymore). PSU is plenty big, 16 gb memory, HD7870 gpu.
I run Win7-64 bit off of an mSATA card (C Drive) on the mobo. I have a Samsung 840 EVO (D Drive) as my gaming/storage drive and an physical harddrive as a download/game install file/backup drive.
I have had this problem a few times before.
Every time I shut down it takes longer and longer. Eventually it hits 90 seconds or so.
The next time I boot up after the super long shutdown, my D Drive SSD isn't detected and Ihave to boot up in safe mode. I run Active Partition Magic, the drive is there, but the Boot Sector Information is messed up.
Specifically: $MFT StartCLuster will have a number like 1000000000000 versus 64287 (made up numbers). I can copy the backup Boot Sector Info the drive keeps and all goes back to normal.
I remember tweaking a ton of stuff when I first got the mSATA and SSD, but the problem surfaced long after that. It almost seems like something related to TRIM (which I don't completely understand) or Intel Rapid Storage.
I'm 99.9% sure there are no viruses.
Any suggestions? My solution has been to not shutdown and use Active Partition Recovery when it doesn't work.