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How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
On 10/08/2022 11:04 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:
I decided to split this out into a topic of its own. Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.
Have you checked what the state of your system drive is? And by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick scan.
There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot. The other could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
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If it fails completely, you will know if the system
won't even see it with WinPE.
But most likely, files will start getting corrupt
and it won't boot on its own.
Glenn
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Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes
How
would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this
machine since 2021.
I decided to split this out into a topic of its own. Too
much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.
Have
you checked what the state of your system drive is? And by that I mean
using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick
scan.
There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in
the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for
Windows Media when attempting to boot. The other could be a corrupt boot
record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
--
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build
19044
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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I bet my sighted friend, Markus can tell me what's goin' on when he comes over. Hopefully that's soon, as I've been quarantined at home with the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus for the last couple weeks. I'm getting better now, but my American mom says I should wait just a little while longer, to make sure both Markus and I are safe, as I don't want to give him any remnants of what I have.
On 10/08/2022 12:26 PM Glenn / Lenny <glenn@...> wrote:
If it fails completely, you will know if the system won't even see it with WinPE.
But most likely, files will start getting corrupt and it won't boot on its own.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
I decided to split this out into a topic of its own. Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.
Have you checked what the state of your system drive is? And by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick scan.
There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot. The other could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Annabelle,
Just curious, did you get the shots for
covid?
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Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes
I
bet my sighted friend, Markus can tell
me what's goin' on when he comes over. Hopefully that's soon, as I've been
quarantined at home with the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus for the last couple weeks. I'm
getting better now, but my American mom says I should wait just a little while
longer, to make sure both Markus and I
are safe, as I don't want to give him any remnants of what I have.
On 10/08/2022 12:26 PM Glenn / Lenny <glenn@...> wrote:
If it fails
completely, you will know if the system won't even see it with WinPE.
But most likely, files
will start getting corrupt and it won't boot on its own.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes
How
would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this
machine since 2021.
I decided to split this out into a topic of its own.
Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.
Have you checked what the state of your system drive is? And
by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data
and/or do a quick scan.
There is at least a decent chance that your
system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you
would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot. The other
could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on
its way out first.
--
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build
19044
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of
Baltimore
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
- The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software. But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on. --
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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Both solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model.
On 10/08/2022 1:25 PM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
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The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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They each have a different serial number. Karen
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 4:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes Both solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model. On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
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The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
-- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 04:29 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model.
- Look in disk manager and determine which is the boot drive, normally C:. Yours is not the first system with a OS (and possibly data, too) disk and another data disk. Out to finish off schlepping in my orchids before tonight's freeze. --
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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I wonder if that can be found in the Bios. Maybe Markus could help with that as well. Or would he have to open up the tower to see that?
On 10/08/2022 1:50 PM Karen Reynolds <karenreynolds2061@...> wrote:
They each have a different serial number.
Karen
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 4:29 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes
Both solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model.
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
-
The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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You should be able to get it through your disk manager. You can also watch for errors to see what is going on. And, if they are several years old, and one is going, the other will go not long after that. Karen
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 4:55 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes I wonder if that can be found in the Bios. Maybe Markus could help with that as well. Or would he have to open up the tower to see that? They each have a different serial number. Karen Both solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model. On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
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The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
-- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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The internal drives installed in the machine were brand new in may of 2021, so it's only been over a year since I've had this machine.
On 10/08/2022 2:15 PM Karen Reynolds <karenreynolds2061@...> wrote:
You should be able to get it through your disk manager.
You can also watch for errors to see what is going on. And, if they are several years old, and one is going, the other will go not long after that.
Karen
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 4:55 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes
I wonder if that can be found in the Bios. Maybe Markus could help with that as well. Or would he have to open up the tower to see that?
They each have a different serial number.
Karen
Both solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model.
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
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The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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That’s not very old, so indicates something else is going on. Karen
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 5:23 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes The internal drives installed in the machine were brand new in may of 2021, so it's only been over a year since I've had this machine. You should be able to get it through your disk manager. You can also watch for errors to see what is going on. And, if they are several years old, and one is going, the other will go not long after that. Karen I wonder if that can be found in the Bios. Maybe Markus could help with that as well. Or would he have to open up the tower to see that? They each have a different serial number. Karen Both solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell which is which, as both of them are the same model. On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.
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The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
-- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 05:23 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
The internal drives installed in the machine were brand new in may of 2021, so it's only been over a year since I've had this machine
- That really doesn't matter. The failure pattern for electronics do not follow the standard bell curve. They are skewed early, and late in life, with a long flat period between that. Admittedly, a year old is "late early," but it's still early. --
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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Do you know if the WD Blue drives are the 530, 550 or 570? Also do
they have heat sinks or thermal pads on them or were they installed without
those options? This can make a big difference on the life of the
drives.
On Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:37:07 -0700 "Brian Vogel" < britechguy@...> writes:
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 05:23 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:
The internal drives installed in the machine were brand new in
may of 2021, so it's only been over a year since I've had this
machine -
That really doesn't matter. The failure pattern
for electronics do not follow the standard bell curve. They are skewed
early, and late in life, with a long flat period between that.
Admittedly, a year old is "late early," but it's still early.
--
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build
19044
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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Annabelle:
Use the following command In the Run Dialog box,
"diskmgmt.msc" (without the quotes, followed by ENTER. This will open the Disk
Management utility.
The program should open in a Tree View. JAWS will
speak the name of the first drive in the list. However, JAWS will not tell
you the number of the disk, for example 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.
Tap the TAB key once, to move to the Graphical View
Table Window.
Use the JAWS Read
Current Line Command. JAWS should say "Disk 0". the system drive is generally Drive 0.
Route the JAWS cursor to the PC cursor, then tap
the NUM PAD DOWN ARROW once. The information below is an example of what
you should hear for your system drive:
Basic System Reserved C (C:)
Tap the NUM PAD DOWN ARROW again. JAWS will
announce information about the system drive, for example:
111.79
GB 579 MB NTFS 111.22 GB NTFS
Tap the NUM PAD DOWN ARROW again. JAWS will
announce the number of partitions which are on the drive, for
example:
Online Healthy (System, Active, Prim
Healthy (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Tap the PC cursor. If Disk 0 is the
system drive and you want to get information about any more drives which are
connect to the system, you may need to tap the DOWN ARROW key twice, before
JAWS tells you that Disk 1, has focus. Follow the steps above to get information
for disk 1.
Let us know how you get on.
Dave
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Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:28
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Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows
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Both
solid state drives are 500 GB Western Digital Blue. I wouldn't be able to tell
which is which, as both of them are the same model.
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison
wrote:
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails?
I've only had this machine since 2021. -
The easiest way is
by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer.
They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software.
You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for
the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that
model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know
which maker your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website,
support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the
drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get
warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits."
CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from
the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the
"status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature
in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the
SSD is the first thing it lands on.
--
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build
19044
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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Brian:
I do not know about any other person on this list
who has limited or no vision but, in my experience, I have not yet used any SSD
disk management software, which is accessible for those of us who use screen
readers, and I have used Kingston, Sansung and WD SSD drives.
Dave
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Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:25
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Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows
Woes
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison
wrote:
How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails?
I've only had this machine since 2021. -
The easiest way is by
running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer. They
virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software. You'd
have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the
drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model
number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker
your SSD is from). Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads
and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.
But, if you
have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data,
have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any
parameter that's "outside normal limits." CrystalDiskInfo is a third
party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have
NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the
overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical
drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
--
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build
19044
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 12:08 PM, Dave Durber wrote:
Online Healthy (System, Active, Prim Healthy (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
- Dave, while your instructions for using Disk Management are spot on, you CANNOT trust this information as far as a potentially dying drive goes. I cannot count the number of drives shown as "healthy" in Disk Management that are anything but. That's why I recommend CrystalDiskInfo and similar. It intentionally examines things that Disk Management doesn't. --
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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Brian:
Annabelle wrote that she did knot know how to find
out which was the system drive and the size of said drives.
Dave
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Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2022 9:13
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Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 12:08 PM, Dave Durber wrote:
Online Healthy (System, Active, Prim Healthy (Boot, Crash Dump,
Primary Partition) -
Dave, while your instructions for using
Disk Management are spot on, you CANNOT trust this information as far as a
potentially dying drive goes. I cannot count the number of drives shown
as "healthy" in Disk Management that are anything but.
That's why I
recommend CrystalDiskInfo and similar. It intentionally examines things
that Disk Management doesn't.
--
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build
19044
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 06:25 PM, Dave Durber wrote:
Annabelle wrote that she did knot know how to find out which was the system drive and the size of said drives.
- Yes, hence my comment your instructions for Disk Management were spot on. But many people take the designation of "healthy" in Disk Management as indicative of an OK disk, and you cannot safely do that, so I wanted to make that absolutely crystal clear. --
Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore
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