SSD trouble PLEASE HELP QUICK

[craphead43]

I recently assembled a PC and installed windows 8. A few days after using my PC I noticed a virus; so I decided to  format my PC using a software called paragon. After I formatted my PC, I re-installed a clean image of my PC on to my SSD since then, I've noticed my PC has been extremely slow in the following: logging in, logging out, shutting down, restarting, and loading everyday tasks. Are these  issues with my SSD? What do I do? Should I return my SSD and buy a new one? please help ASAP.   

 

CPU: I7  4930k 3.4Ghz @4.12 Ghz 

 

MB: ASUS Rampage Black Edition IV

 

RAM: 16 gb corsair vengeance

 

OS: Win. 8

 

PSU: EVGA 750g 750 WATT

 

Case: NZXT Phantom 820

 

SSD: Samsung 840 EVO  120 gb (this is the one i think i broke)

 

CPU Cooler: Corsair h100i

 

GPU: Diamond r9 290x 

[Adam]

Is the SSD your only drive?

[craphead43]

Is the SSD your only drive?

yeah

[craphead43]

HELP

[Excon]

Try reformatting again? I've never heard of Paragon so I don't know what it could have done

[Volbet]

Try booting up form the Windows disk (or USB stick) and format it through the installer. It might be that the program screwed something up during the formatting.

[Ivyk]

Isn't it so that you should NEVER format an SSD or is that something else?

[craphead43]

Isn't it so that you should NEVER format an SSD or is that something else?

so what should i do at this point?

[Volbet]

Isn't it so that you should NEVER format an SSD or is that something else?

That's defragmenting. You can format an SSD all you want.

 

so what should i do at this point?

Try doing as both @ and I recommended. Reformat the disk.

[willielikesmonkeys]

Isn't it so that you should NEVER format an SSD or is that something else?

That's just silly, formatting is perfectly safe. And you should never roll back from an image and just continue using that image. you really have no way of knowing exactly when the virus hit you. Use a live linux cd or usb drive to backup media to an externel drive (if you dont have one now is the time) then reinstall from the install disc, NOT a system image.

[craphead43]

That's just silly, formatting is perfectly safe. And you should never roll back from an image and just continue using that image. you really have no way of knowing exactly when the virus hit you. Use a live linux cd or usb drive to backup media to an externel drive (if you dont have one now is the time) then reinstall from the install disc, NOT a system image.

or should i just return my ssd and buy a new one

[willielikesmonkeys]

or should i just return my ssd and buy a new one

No the ssd is probably perfectly fine.

[Excon]

Isn't it so that you should NEVER format an SSD or is that something else?

It's never defrag an SSD. Reformatting is a fancy of saying wipe all data

[willielikesmonkeys]

Reformatting is a fancy of saying wipe all data

Sortta, usually you aren't actually wiping the data, just the Master Boot Record. Wiping the whole drive would take much too long.