I tested my HDD and its not that, so I don't know what is corrupting my files and folders.

I get weird corrupt files and folders and my desktop icons are replacing others, I REFORMATTED the ENTIRE computer and started from SCRATCH and its STILL going this! What could be the problem?

 

If it's desktop I vote bad/cheap PSU. These give strange intermittent problems.

 

Its a laptop.

 

Did the manufacturer include hardware testing software?

 

Free Microsoft programs for disk subsystem reliability and performance testing

 

For testing if my documents are changing unexpectedly over time, I use FileVerifier++.

 

Could be drivers. Could be failing ram.

Try running http://www.memtest.org/ and go from there. You could also try OCCT: http://www.ocbase.com/index.php/44-occt-4-4-1-available That'll pick up any hardware errors too.

I'd be pretty sure you're experiencing a hardware issue.

 

cheater87,

Do you have Fast Startup enabled in Win8.1? This can cause data corruption.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ucf/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=427

 

Guessing wildly, which probably won't help you, memory or gpu.
Mrk

 

I didn't know this, I will disable it.

 

That's weird, I don't know for sure if it's caused by this, but after disabling this feature, I lost about 7GB of space from my SSD. I also applied some tweaks with Ultimate Windows Tweaker but none of them were related to the disk-drive. Does anyone have any ideas?

I also could not find any new files that were created, so could it perhaps be the hibernation file that has somehow become bigger ? To get my space back, I decided to reduce the size of my page-file.

EDIT: I just found this: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html