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1) Just about everyday, the "New Notifications" box tells me I've got a "Drive Error" and should restart (I generally ignore it: nothing happens). It never tells me which drive has the issue or what type of problem it is. I'm kind of convinced that this has something to do with Norton AV, but I'm not sure.
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It takes a bit of getting used to it, but you can take a look at the Event Viewer, and these errors should be in there and which "file" was the culprit. Once you know which file is the issue, solving it might be a bit easier, if it is a software issue, as sometimes you can just uninstall it and then reinstall it.
Hardware issues are tougher. For example, I'm afraid to put W10 on the machine that has that big M-Audio card (the octopus one!!!), because M-Audio has been very poor on drivers over the years. I had an issue with the W7 Pro version that was a hassle and then some, though it "mysteriously" disappeared, and I think it might have happened with a Microsoft update!
The Norton thing. All of my machines, have been done by a process that is normally considered the best. Clean HD, install Windows, immediately install the Security Software, and then any of your programs. The tough part of it all, is that most of us, are simply upgrading (specially when it was free) the computer and there is stuff underneath that ends up getting stuck and locked up and this, normally is an issue. So, on each machine, before updating, I take every thing off, including the security software, so that at the "end" the only thing in the computer is Windows. For my way of seeing it, this allows the Security Software to start fresh, after the new Windows is installed, and I have found this very reliable on all my machines at this time. Only my laptop has not been done, but that one is an Acer, and I will probably by a W10 disk, and wipe that HD clean of all Acer stuff before installing W10 on it. It's a couple of years old, so I might not even bother and just drown that laptop in the Columbia River, as Craig could not even doodle 4 bars of anything on it. I only use it to type and write many of the reviews for my website.
From my old days in technical support, I did not like Norton, or McAfee, as they had a nasty habit of locking up the email programs and have the customers call us at the ISP to fix "their" problem. Just not smart coding. It could mark that email off and do the others ... nooooo ... it has to lock up people's doings and make it harsh and bad for them!
To this day, I do not trust both of those. I have been with F-Secure for 10 plus years, and they have been excellent, and none of my machines had issues, except one of my machines 5 years ago got one of those root things, and their support removed it and all was fine then. It was during that session that I realized that the "process" of setting up a Security Program was the main difference ... or I'm just plain lucky! Well ... poop ... I still have not won the Lottery!