Major SSD problems, please advise.

[dfrizzy]

After getting sick of only having 128 GB of storage on my SSD, (Windows OS, files, a few games) i decided to buy a 240 GB SSD on cyber monday. i got it in the mail, and attached it via the SATA data and power cables and downloaded EaseUS ToDo back up software, and started cloning the data from the 128 GB SSD to the 240 GB SSD. it took about 15 minutes, and after booting up and checking to see if everything was doing well, i formatted my old 128 GB SSD. over the past few days i have been running into the issue where the whole OS locks up, and i cant use it. the only way to shut my system down is to press and hold the power button. it seems that when i leave my computer on and i am away from it for a while, (making coffee, eating ect.) it has some major issues. but if i am using it, gaming or watching a movie, i dont normally run into the problem. i have tried downloading the latest drivers from Crucial, and even power cycling my drives, but nothing seems to work. its driving me nuts, and any help would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Windows 8.1 Pro

Intel i5

MSI GTX 760

8GB of Crucial Ballistix RAM

Gigabyte LGA 1150 motherboard. 

128 GB Crucial m4 SSD

240 GB Crucial M550 SSD

[Enderman]

You cloned your SSD.

That is the problem.

Never do that.

 

Now you will have to do a clean install of windows anyway to fix this. You could have saved yourself all this trouble if you had done a clean install in the first place instead of being lazy.

[dfrizzy]

okay wow way to be rude. im not a genius, and had no idea that cloning an SSD would cause these issues. and since you seem to have so much knowledge, why dont you tell me exactly why my OS is acting up like this?

[Pomfinator]

okay wow way to be rude. im not a genius, and had no idea that cloning an SSD would cause these issues. and since you seem to have so much knowledge, why dont you tell me exactly why my OS is acting up like this?

Wow, what a way to be ungrateful.  He told you EXACTLY why your OS is acting strange, and also noted that everything could have been avoided.  It was your fault, a quick google search reveals that cloning an SSD is dangerous, something I think you ought to have done before you tried.

[Dimwitted]

Really? And why is that? Cloning a ssd to a ssd should be nothing. You two don't sound like you know what you're talking about.

 

Ok, after all that, @dfrizzy did you actually clone your drive or did you copy it? That might be the problem. Using something like Acronis Truecopy might have been better but that is too late now. I do agree with Enderman that reloading Windows is a good start. It certainly can't hurt. Do that and get back to us with what happens after.

[dfrizzy]

I specifically remember cloning, not copying my ssd, and i dont have the disk/product key for my version of windows anymore.

[Dimwitted]

Is your computer going into hibernation? With ssd's turn that off. Otherwise I can't think of anything that will help, sorry.