Bad clusters on Pyro 120gb

[xox101]

Hello all, first post here so please bear with me.

I have been having a series of BSODs on my Win7 Pro system over the last couple of days with no clue as to what is causing them so after the last one I scheduled a disc check. Windows finished the disc check with a warning that it had found x number of bad clusters and then rebooted. Happened a little too quick for me to see the number unfortunately but after getting back into Windows and opening My Computer, my Pyro ssd shows only 66.6 gb free instead of the 73gb free before the disc check.

I assume the missing gigabytes are the bad clusters? Or what passes for bad clusters on an ssd?

Would pulling the drive and doing a secure erase using gparted on my Linux laptop followed by a reinstall of Win7 give me back my missing gigabytes or is this symptomatic of a deeper problem?

Appreciate any help.

Jerry

[Patriot_Ben]

How much of it do you have full? Are you on the latest firmware?

What is the make and model motherboard you have?

Yes, can you can try the gparted format? Or even a format of the drive to see if it shows the full capacity?

You should see about 111.75GB raw after fresh format.

[xox101]

The drive shows as being 66.5gb free out of 119gb in total. This was showing as 73gb before I did the Windows disk check.

I haven't had a blue screen since the disk check so it definitely points towards a problem with the drive itself. I will backup and do a full secure erase.

The drive is in an ASUS K72j laptop.

[canthearu]

SSDs should not be showing bad blocks .... that much is certain. In addition, windows shouldn't bother marking clusters bad on a filesystem based on a SSD. SSDs have a completely dynamic LBA to physical map, which means that when windows writes a particular LBA, the SSD will store it wherever it convenient ... and probably never in the same place it was before.

After you rebuild your computer, can you post SMART values for your drive. This may (or may not) show what is happening with your drive. Use crystaldiskinfo if you don't have a program to read SMART data.

[xox101]

Secure erased and a new install of Win7. Been running a few days now with no problems and SMART seems to show no problems.

Fingers crossed!