I was able to narrow down the problem by several attempts to reinstall windows on my computer, and as it turned out, one of the cards I bought from Ableconn, which was a USB 3.0 card, wreaked so much havoc on my Windows install by constantly disconnecting and reconnecting my devices I had plugged into the card. The damage was so severe, it nearly rendered my hard drive dead. Had I not started taking it upon myself to have the card removed when I did, it would have completely killed my hard drive. Now I have a hard drive with errors all over it, and I discovered this after I formatted and tried to reinstall Windows. I reinstalled it 3 times, but to no avail. We finally had to go in, take out the SATA cable, hook it up with a different SATA cable, then it allowed the fourth attempt to reinstall. Got all the way to the desktop after everything was set up, and while I was attempting to install the graphics card driver via Nvidia Geforce Experience (God, I love that program!), I noticed that something wasn't right...it took about 10 minutes to get the process started. While it was doing that, I thought I'd see if I could explore the structure of my newly installed Windows hard drives and see what drive letters associated with the drives I had connected. That's when I realized Windows Explorer was struggling to execute all my clicks. Went back to the Nvidia install window, and it was still showing me the splash screen. Finally after 15 minutes, it loaded the main window asking me to download the latest driver for the card it detected. Usually this task is very fast, but this time, the task took four times longer than it should have. All the while, I'm testing out the stability of things like opening the Start menu, scrolling and browsing through the program list, etc. and even THAT struggled. Then I notice in my notifications that there were errors on C: and I had the thing fully formatted, and there are still errors? That tells me that some bad sectors had to have developed through all this. So I decided while I had the desktop up, I would move all the files I had on my D: storage drive to another storage drive, so that way I would have a different hard drive to reinstall Windows to. So I shut down, rebooted from CD and reinstalled windows to the emptied storage drive, which would become my new C: drive. The other C: drive from before was going to switch places and become my D: drive for storage. I got Windows installed instantly and very fast, which was the way it was supposed to be in the first place. Got Nvidia Geforce Experience installed and right away it started downloading the driver in record time. While it was doing this, I decided to move the files I had on D: drive back onto the D: drive (keep in mind, this D: drive was my other C: drive, the one with the faulty windows installs.) and I noticed that anything i did on D: drive would struggle and hang up a bit, and the files were transferring very slowly. Whatever errors that were on that disk are still on it! Tried to format D: and since it was formerly a system drive with a previous install of Windows, it wouldn't let me format the drive because it still registers as a system drive.

I feel that all of the above could have been avoided had that USB 3.0 card worked the way it should have, but all that continuous disconnecting and reconnecting of my devices caused the hard drive to create errors on the disk. Keep in mind that everything was working just great when the USB 3.0 card would OCCASIONALLY disconnect and reconnect, and I didn't have any problem executing programs or even exploring my computer. It wasn't until the card went haywire and continuously and repeatedly disconnected and reconnected everything, and that's when the problems sort of hit me like a ton of bricks, and I still have those errors on the disk, so I'm not out of the ballpark yet. The new C: drive is working like a charm though, and you can sure as hell bet I'm never ever ever ever EVER going to install anything from Ableconn ever again! If you get tempted to get a new piece of hardware and the name on the box says Ableconn, CAVEAT EMPTOR! LET THE BUYER BEWARE! Ableconn is crap and it will destroy your hard drive if you try to install it into your machine.

Now I'm waiting for Ableconn to give me the return address so I can mail this hunk of garbage back to them for a refund. I find it funny that they were very punctual with their email responses when they were helping me to diagnose and troubleshoot the card, but the moment i requested a return address for a refund, that's when the replies stopped coming. If I don't hear back from them today, I'm writing them back again and re-requesting a return address for that refund. I don't care if I have to flood their inbox and spam my request to them over and over again, I will be getting my refund...and then I'm boycotting their entire company and I urge everyone else do the same!