[Katsunami]

I don't know if you can just install a different driver on any system.

StorAHCI.sys is the "Windows 10 Inbox driver", as Microsoft calls it. I always wonder how software can just crap out like that if it hasn't been changed since 2006. Or, it has been changed, but the date hasn't been updated or something.

I've reinstalled the Intel chipset drivers, but they didn't replace the storage driver.

I did remember though, that on a past computer, I always installed 'something' that installed a driver called "iaStor<something>.sys", made by Intel, so I went looking for it. It turned out to be Intel Rapid Storage Technology. I forgot about that, because my previous (desktop *AND* laptop) computers have worked flawlessly: I installed them with Windows Vista in the beginning of 2008, then did an in-place upgrade to Windows 7 in 2011, and then did an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 in 2015. Those two computers are still running. They have *never* been re-installed. Before that, I ran a Windows NT4 computer from 1996 until febuari 2000, a Windows 2000 computer from 2000 to the end of 2004, and a Windows XP computer from 2004 until the end of 2007, also without re-installation. Software and drivers were updated, obviously, but as those are old systems, most driver updates ceased some years back.

This new laptop has been re-installed twice already, since januari 2016. I skipped Windows 8.x, but Windows 10 is the first Windows-installation that has given me problems in *twenty years*. (I never used Windows 9x/ME, and I always used good hardware with good drivers; also never installed crap or unknown software.)

The fact that Windows 10 is giving me problems now, where NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7 didn't, indicates to me that Microsoft is botching stuff up with their rolling release update system. It has the same problems as the cutting edge rolling release Linux systems: shit breaks. It's not for nothing that systems like Debian have a 'stable' version, and other distributions now have LTS versions.

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I left the laptop running overnight and during my work day. In the past few weeks, it would hang the D-drive (hard disk) as soon as I touched it again. Today, it seems to work. It *could* be that installing IRST is a solution to this problem, but as this is just a 'leave the computer on for a day'-test, it's not yet conclusive.

As the system has other problems such as installing/removing software, I think I'm going to back up my user profile, and do a re-install. A-fracking-gain.