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[Gasman]

Installed a Crucial 2TB SSD about 2 years ago in this laptop.
Not heavily used anymore, as now retired.

Due to this Windows/SSD issue, which apparently is due to a certain firmware, I went into Crucial Storage Executive to check my firmware.

Then I see this. :-(

My 2TB hard disk, much older

I will be going back to hard disks.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Is "Crucial Storage Executive" a Windows feature or a commercial package? I would have LOVED to have had it or known about it a year ago when my SSD died on me, and it was the second SSD to do so.

The first one died within a month of purchase and was inside the 90 day warranty, so my replacement drive was free. Its replacement lasted only about 4-5 years and just DIED on me, except it died raggedly. It did a Windows Recovery and resurrected itself, which gave me time to work.

I made backups of my crucial storage areas and took other precautions, but then I started to get all sorts of other errors - like telling me I was having a controller error on my disk, which was absurd because it was responding correctly to diagnostics. I knew I had to replace the SSD and was looking around for a decent gaming machine, but then the moment came when the system fan died - and that was the death knell. Once the system fan stops, your CPU chip burns to a crisp that make Doritos jealous.

I'm not going to say that the SSD was the cause of the other failures because it WAS an old machine - it had given me 15 really good years ... but my replacement gaming machine came with SSD only so I made sure I had a 2TB HDD added to the mix. Then I used the Windows feature that lets me move the "special" folders - My Documents, My Pictures, etc. - and I immediately moved everything to the HDD.

 

[Gasman]

It is a free download from Crucial.
It does recognise the hard disk as well, so might work on all storage devices?

It is only pure chance that I went into it, as it was just to check the firmware.

Just ordered. 2TB Seagate HD, same model as the other one I have in the laptop

 

[The_Doc_Man]

From your Win 11 (and might work from Win 10):

Start CMD prompt as admin
Type: WMIC DISKDRIVE GET STATUS

It only tells you OK, BAD, or PRED FAIL (predict failure) but at least you can get SOME warnings.

Even though you only type DISKDRIVE (as a singular thing) it checks all disk drives in your system. Doesn't tell you which is which, but it goes in drive letter order.

 

[GPGeorge]

That works on Win10 as well.

 

[Gasman]

From your Win 11 (and might work from Win 10):

Start CMD prompt as admin
Type: WMIC DISKDRIVE GET STATUS

It only tells you OK, BAD, or PRED FAIL (predict failure) but at least you can get SOME warnings.

Even though you only type DISKDRIVE (as a singular thing) it checks all disk drives in your system. Doesn't tell you which is which, but it goes in drive letter order.

Well that reports OK on both ATM.
However the SSD is my C: and F: drives where F: is where I keep my data and C: purely for windows and programs, pretty much