ZorgTheDestroyer
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So, I just installed a new hard drive. My operating system is on an SSD, I have a normal SATA drive I use for all my programs, and to read/write to (I edit a lot of video).
I wanted to add another drive just to read and write video from/to, so I bought one second hand on Ebay.
Windows 7 detected it and installed the driver, but it never showed up, so I figured it wasn't formatted. I checked the disk management, and there it was. Not formatted. For some reason, it was listed as "Disk 0". Normally, if I install a new drive, it picks the next number UP. I have no idea if that's relevant or not.
Anyway, the drive formatted fine, so I copied about 100GB of video to it from my second drive. I checked it, and it all worked fine, so I deleted it from the second drive.
Then, I went to open the video editor and got a message about some missing file and it couldn't start. (Not a missing video file required for a project. And actual file required to run the program)
I tried to uninstall it and got an error (1719, or 1790, I think) that I couldn't access the windows installer.
I Googled the code, so I know Firefox was working at this time.
I tried running some other programs. Some would load, some would not. I got a message about a missing parameter or something. I went to Google this, but got the same message when trying to open Firefox OR Chrome. A few programs opened just fine.
I suspected the SSD had some corruption or whatnot, and ran a chkdsk, but it seemed fine.
Next time I booted up, I got a blank blue screen. I waited a bit, but nothing happened. I was able to open the task manager at this time, and very few processes were running.
I tried a re-start, and it booted up just fine.
In confusion, I started typing this question right here, and , as I did, I saw a message popup. Panda AV had detected some threat or other. The path appeared to suggest it was something in the Panda installation folder itself that was the "threat".
I clicked "remove" and then, suddenly I was able to open all the programs, except Pinnacle Studio (The first program I tried to open. The one that let me know there was a problem)
I tried again to uninstall it, and this time I was able to.
So...this has me confused. Everything seems to be working now, but I'd still like to know what was wrong.
I don't believe the new drive was infected. It was a blank volume and I formatted it.
I can't even be sure if installing the new drive was related in any way to the problem. It could just be coincidence.
After installing the new drive, I had to change the boot priority to get the computer to boot up, but, other than that, all the previous drives were still assigned their original letters.
A bad AV update, maybe? It seems odd that this happened immediately after adding a new HDD, when everything has been working perfectly for a couple of years.
I wanted to add another drive just to read and write video from/to, so I bought one second hand on Ebay.
Windows 7 detected it and installed the driver, but it never showed up, so I figured it wasn't formatted. I checked the disk management, and there it was. Not formatted. For some reason, it was listed as "Disk 0". Normally, if I install a new drive, it picks the next number UP. I have no idea if that's relevant or not.
Anyway, the drive formatted fine, so I copied about 100GB of video to it from my second drive. I checked it, and it all worked fine, so I deleted it from the second drive.
Then, I went to open the video editor and got a message about some missing file and it couldn't start. (Not a missing video file required for a project. And actual file required to run the program)
I tried to uninstall it and got an error (1719, or 1790, I think) that I couldn't access the windows installer.
I Googled the code, so I know Firefox was working at this time.
I tried running some other programs. Some would load, some would not. I got a message about a missing parameter or something. I went to Google this, but got the same message when trying to open Firefox OR Chrome. A few programs opened just fine.
I suspected the SSD had some corruption or whatnot, and ran a chkdsk, but it seemed fine.
Next time I booted up, I got a blank blue screen. I waited a bit, but nothing happened. I was able to open the task manager at this time, and very few processes were running.
I tried a re-start, and it booted up just fine.
In confusion, I started typing this question right here, and , as I did, I saw a message popup. Panda AV had detected some threat or other. The path appeared to suggest it was something in the Panda installation folder itself that was the "threat".
I clicked "remove" and then, suddenly I was able to open all the programs, except Pinnacle Studio (The first program I tried to open. The one that let me know there was a problem)
I tried again to uninstall it, and this time I was able to.
So...this has me confused. Everything seems to be working now, but I'd still like to know what was wrong.
I don't believe the new drive was infected. It was a blank volume and I formatted it.
I can't even be sure if installing the new drive was related in any way to the problem. It could just be coincidence.
After installing the new drive, I had to change the boot priority to get the computer to boot up, but, other than that, all the previous drives were still assigned their original letters.
A bad AV update, maybe? It seems odd that this happened immediately after adding a new HDD, when everything has been working perfectly for a couple of years.
