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Originally Posted by luka
Why is it a hack solution? It will be slightly slower at worst and as you said it will detect hardware automatically. If it is an SSD issue then there will be no crashes as it won't be used. If it is issue with other hardware then there will be crashes.
Keep in mind that Windows was running nicely until recently and that a clean reinstall did not help.
And in this case it is not just the extra time of reinstalling Linux and then Windows again, Peter said that he had to ask his mate to do a install Windows for him.
Peter, if you do the test with your other SSD make sure you disable Windows updates. That may be another possible culprit.
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Installing on said SSD vs running a live disk is why it's a hack. Actually installing on the SSD and running the O/S from said SSD will stress the SSD from an I/O perspective.
Another thing with a live disk setup is that no log files will be written to disk, which will make checking problems more problematic.
I have a good number of years in the industry, and also troubleshooting problems for friends/family.