Boot Problems

[MineIQ1701]

I have an SSD as my boot drive, and it worked just fine for a couple weeks, but I had to unplug it and my other drive. And now when I try to boot my computer up, it doesent go to Windows, it POST's just fine, and the drive is recgognized and is first in boot priority, but it still doesent boot. I even cleared the CMOS, no luck. Any ideas?

 

[voyagerfan99]

HDD may be set as priority, but is the SSD set as the primary boot HDD in HDD priority?

 

[MineIQ1701]

Right now I only have the SSD connected so it wouldn't make a differance

 

[MineIQ1701]

If it helps all I see after the BIOS boot is a black screen with a blinking white underscore

 

[voyagerfan99]

Did you previously have the drive setup as AHCI? You checked to be sure that was also enabled?

Check that, and then after reboot enter the boot menu and select the HDD. If it then boots then you know you have some other issue.

 

[MineIQ1701]

Still does not boot

 

[claptonman]

Did you plug it back into the same SATA ports as it was before? The power and SATA cables are on the drives securely? Did you touch anything else, like the RAM?

 

[johnb35]

Did you install windows to the ssd drive while the original drive was still plugged in? If so, your boot files are most likely on the other drive and you will need to do a repair on your OS to get it to boot now.

 

[MineIQ1701]

Yes, yes, no

 

[MineIQ1701]

...that might be it

 

[MineIQ1701]

How do I do a repair?

 

[johnb35]

Boot to the install cd and choose to repair the operating system.

 

[MineIQ1701]

It will not let me repair

 

[johnb35]

Then you'll have to bite the bullet and do a fresh install.

 

[MineIQ1701]

Ugh, will I have to reinstall my programs or since its the same computer will it be ok?

 

[johnb35]

You'll be okay since its the same computer.

 

[MineIQ1701]

I tried reinstalling, and two things happened 1. It said my SSD was totally free of dada, and when I tried to install, I got a messege saying "The file or directory C:\ is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility." What do I do?

 

[johnb35]

When you tried installing windows or programs? If windows, then you'll have to delete the existing partitions and repartition then format and install.

 

[MineIQ1701]

My SSD has corrupted in some way, It only shows one folder when I pluged it into another computer, "$WINDOWS.~BT". When opened it leads to a folder called Rollback that contains a bunch if .dat and .xml files, and a bunch of text documents in Wingdings, what should I do with this?

 

[johnb35]

Go into disk management and see how much space used and how much space is free. See if the amounts coinside with what you think you have. If you didn't have much data on it, just delete existing partitions and repartition then format it.