gillmanjr
Member
Hey, so this morning I turned my PC on briefly to check something, right before I was about to turn it back off and leave for work it completely froze up on me, to the point that I couldn't even bring up task manager or anything. It was completely unresponsive. I ended up just holding the power button and shutting it down because I needed to leave. When I got home a little while ago and turned it on, all I got was a black screen with...
"Reboot and Select proper boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
This is literally the first issue I have ever had with this PC since I built it a little over 4 years ago. I have already searched online a little and tried changing the boot priorities in the BIOS and a few other things to get into Windows, but nothing is working. My boot drive is a Samsung 970 evo NVME. I'm starting to think the drive has crapped out but I'm having a hard time believing that a Samsung SSD just died after 4 years of use with absolutely no previous issues.
Any help would be appreciated. Is there anything else I can try? If its true that my NVME failed, I am most likely going to build a new system. I know that may sound drastic but I was considering it anyway. This would be just the excuse I need.
Also, one additional question: if my NVME boot drive is bad and I were to re-install a fresh copy of windows 10 onto another SSD (an old one I have that is not being used) will I still be able to access everything on my other drives without having to re-format them? I know I've done this before but I can't remember...
"Reboot and Select proper boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
This is literally the first issue I have ever had with this PC since I built it a little over 4 years ago. I have already searched online a little and tried changing the boot priorities in the BIOS and a few other things to get into Windows, but nothing is working. My boot drive is a Samsung 970 evo NVME. I'm starting to think the drive has crapped out but I'm having a hard time believing that a Samsung SSD just died after 4 years of use with absolutely no previous issues.
Any help would be appreciated. Is there anything else I can try? If its true that my NVME failed, I am most likely going to build a new system. I know that may sound drastic but I was considering it anyway. This would be just the excuse I need.
Also, one additional question: if my NVME boot drive is bad and I were to re-install a fresh copy of windows 10 onto another SSD (an old one I have that is not being used) will I still be able to access everything on my other drives without having to re-format them? I know I've done this before but I can't remember...