Cant boot form SSD

[themcmahon9]

I recently purchased a Samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd with the intention of making it my boot drive with some games on it. I used Samsung data migration tool to transfer the data across from my old HDD. The transfer was successful and after rebooting a few times and launching windows from the SSD I deleted the data from the old hard drive. Next I tried to run Black Ops 2. When ever I joined a lobby that had already started I would be fine. But when I was in the loading screen for a lobby that hadn't started yet the game would crash and restart. I looked at some posts on the Steam community forums and found that updating the BIOS settings of you motherboard could fix the problem. So I found the new software from Gigabyte's website and updated the settings. I made sure that I was updating the version for the correct motherboard. When I restarted I found I could not boot to my SSD. I could access my BIOS fine but when I selected the reset PC from the windows repair options it said the drive was locked. I tried to unlock the drive by changing partitions but was unable to. I finally decided to install windows on another hard drive from an old computer and was able to load windows on that. I can access the SSD fine from windows now but I still cant boot to it. Does anyone have any ideas about what could have happened. My motherboard is a Gigabyte 970A D3P.

 

[CountMike]

Now when you have working windows, why don't you just download http://www.pcdisk.com/download.html and delete all the partitions on SSD, make one partition that is primary and active in NTFS. Than install windows on it while the HDD is disconnected. Don't forget to set SATA to AHCI mode before windows installation.