Computer not booting.

keith969

Luffy321 wrote: »

The windows 7 boot disc cannot find my ssd drive to repair.

It's possible your SSD has a hardware fault. I had the same with a Kingston v300 that 7 months from new suddenly stopped working. Only solution was to replace it, fortunately I was able to boot from the old (C:) hard disk, restore recent changes and then clone to a new SSD.

Heedtheadvice

OK Big Fred that may be your (and others) preference but let's get Luffy back working first?

Rather than taking the leap to Linux (excellent though it is, it is not everyone's cup of tea) It might be better (Luffy's decision to make) to get up and running again then install Macrium reflect and take preventive action so that it it does happen again it is just a case of loading up the saved image.

We are presuming here, at this stage, that the SSD has not gone duff!
(will Linux have stopped that? :-) ) and that there is no wanted data on the SSD!

Luffy321

grumpycrab wrote: »

more likely it cannot find Windows 7 rather than the. SSD. At the command prompt (DOS!). Can you get to the SSD drive? Can you see files?

I'm at the command prompt. I typed chddsk. What exactly am I looking for?

grumpycrab

Go through available partitions. Type c: <enter>. And have a look around.
Then. <enter>. Etc. You'll. Know when you find the SSD. as it will have "users", " windows ". Etc. " dir". Is the command to display files.

Luffy321

When I type in the c drive nothing came up. So I type diskpart then list volume and only my DVD rom and 1tb western cavalier were listed.

grumpycrab

Not good. At this point I'd take the SSD out and plug into another computer -desktop via SATA cable- or put it in a cheap caddy.

Luffy321

Okay I will try that. Is there any reason why bios can detect it but windows cannot?

grumpycrab

Luffy321 wrote: »

Okay I will try that. Is there any reason why bios can detect it but windows cannot?

Don't know much about SSDs, assuming this is an SSD fault. Did the BIOS SMART data look ok?
One other thing I'd try - with computer plugged into mains, turn the mains switch off. Hold power button down for 20secs. Switch mains on again, try power button. Long shot...

Heedtheadvice

Generally good advice there.....Only I would jump straight to another PC with SSD on data cable or in a caddy, download SSD manufacturers diagnostic support software (see their web site) -skhynix have one- and see what it reports.

arrallas

I had exactly the same situation with my Samsung Evo ssd. It just stopped working whilst working on a Word doc. After trying many of the suggestions above, I put the ssd into a caddy where it wasn't recognised by my laptop. I had a very recent Macrium Reflect image of the drive, so contacted Samsung who immediately collected the drive and delivered a replacement by courier. All now up and running again!