I installed a 256 ssd this week to replace a regular drive for my os and programs. The hdd was failing extended smart tests with too many bad sectors. Noticed the problem after some bsod's and did the usual repairs. The repairs found some bad clusters and I assume fixed them. Worked again but smart tests still failed. I assume the drive is simply failing and needs replacement. Sucks because its not even a year old, I think, and its supposed to be one of the better ones.
Some strange things happening after fresh install on the ssd. The boot is sometimes hanging during auto-detect of the drives. Requring a shutdown and restart. If I go afk for awhile I find that it has rebooted to the login screen. Maybe after sleep? I dunno, checking that. Windows repair of the os isnt finding a problem. Currently only the ssd is running to see if it unexpectedly reboots again.
Would a failing drive, even if its not set as a boot drive, cause these kinds of problems? If I still get problems with the ssd only then I dunno. This is the first one I bought so I dunno if there is supposed to be other things to do other than make the bios changes.