Device name JohnPCProcessor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHzInstalled RAM 10.0 GBDevice ID 82DEEFC0-EB93-4B55-B1C0-989AC9F50FC6Product ID ...

I tried the wi-fi adapter with the supplied driver and the microsoft default driver and both had the slow problem.

I removed the adapter from the computer and its starting much faster.

So I'm...

On a cold startup usually BIOS runs for 15sec before windows starts loading now it runs 5 minutes before windows starts loading.

I recently shuffled some disks and partitions around and added a...

The SSD failed again this aft with 100% disk active (but no I/O). and repeated each time I booted within 2-3 minutes..

I talked to Crucial and they agreed to replace it with a newer MX 200 model....

Hi Rich:

Oh yes I did what they said. I was able to recover from a back up and boot the from the SSD. I ran the system all day with no apparent issues. CHKDSK showed nothing wrong. According to...

The reply from crucial was as follows

"Thank you for contacting Crucial. We have received your warranty replacement request, however based on the symptoms you described I believe your SSD should...

Hello Rich
Thought I would let you know that my problem has been solved. After much friging around with memory and stuff. I finally diagnosed the problem is with the crucial mx100 ssd. I looked on...

The Acronis recovery USB stick worked, but in bringing back the c partition it failed because of apparent corruption of the backup disk. New crap just keeps showing up. I will be away for a couple...

The puzzle deepens......
I am able to boot UBUNTU from a 4GB USB stick on the laptop
Interestingly Ubuntu shows only 2Gb of memory , when there should be 4 Gb
I will look at the memory, but...

Judging from the reply, I think we got off the track, just to recap.
Original problem:
1) Laptop wont boot from SSD, or 4 different rescue scenario DVDS error 0xc000014c
2) You suggested a...

Yes it does show there as a generic USB.

I also tried another USB stick which contains a bootable UBUNTU OS... I reformated this USB stick it only has a 4GB capacity so I tried a create recovery...

The flash drive was plugged in .....explorer can see it but the "create recovery disk" doesn't see it

Rebooting with the USB inserted makes no difference.

The USB stick is 32GB and formated...

I selected to enable f12 as suggested

only the main ssd drive, the IDE1: DVD , and the Network boot show up

the options USB HDD:
USB FDD:
USB CD/DVD ROM:...

Sorry if I was not clear...... When I try to boot anything I get the error.... IE: the SSD system disk, or any DVD that has those recovery items on it that I mentioned.

Sanssail

I have tried the following to recover from this problem:

1) Acronis 2016 true image rescue disc

2) Easeustodo v9.2 rescue disc

3) Windows 10 generated rescue disc

4) Windows...

I solved my problem with a clean install ....................... no

2-3 days of running well got me excited, but during October tried all the things recommended in the posts and still have...

clean install of windows 10 worked for me after intolerable hangs after upgrade

I was plagued with system hangs over and over. After making deductions about various apps causing the problem and deinstalling them still no luck! Then I decided to do a clean install of windows...

Thanks for the info. In your case was your system hanging when you got the 100% disk usage??

I reverted back to windows 7 a few days ago so cant try your solution right now. I reverted after...

I have just installed SR-1 or whatever it is called........Still have the same problem

I have exactly the same problem, disk goes up to 100% active (this an SSD) yet only minor read/write activity has existed. At this I get windows not responding no matter what I do. Occasionally...

I had to power off to shutdown, after that a powerup and it went a bit further, followed many many hangs.
Conflicting virus checkers was the problem, defender was running and Panda for windows 8.1...

I have resolved this problem , see post of same name in General Dicussions

I may have solved my own problem:really: I noticed that PANDA SECURITY was trying to run as well as windows defender. Also panda had not been updated to a Windows10 compatible version. I managed to...

Hi Jeffryj11:

I notice you have an Nvidia graphics card. There has been a number of issues reported with Nvidia drivers that I have glanced at!!! If you haven't already you might want to look at...