disapearing ssd containing os

[Razgaros]

Hi everyone,

I have some sort of vodoo trick for you guys to figure out : I have a ssd hard-drive containing my os. When I booted my computer the other day, it said : no os detected, please select a viable boot device.

I then messed around a bit with the bios, only to find out that A) my computer does'nt recognise the ssd anymore (and thus no os) and B) every cable is in place (assuming there's only two of them needed to boot a harddrive). I tried to switch the working cables of my other hardrive to the ssd, see if it was a cable problem, and nothing changed (altought I installed 8.1 on one of my 2 remaining hardrives and it works fine).I live alone an obsiouly did'nt touch anything, I also never touched the bios before I had any trouble.

I'm guessing the problem might be coming from the Legacy/UEFI boot options (sadly my motherboard does'nt seem to refresh it's boot options after a change), but then again, I never touched them and it worked fine for 9 months.

Any ideas?

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Razgaros.

In my opinion you shouldn't have any trouble with the BOIS/UEFI options, which you've had selected as it sounds like you didn't have any issues like this in the first place, while they were still active. However, you could try resetting/updating the BIOS/UEFI of you computer, to see if that fixes things up. Other than that, you could try the SSD with a SATA port as well, or even better - with a different computer, to see if it can recognize the drive. If you manage to get a computer to recognize it, check for available firmware updates for your SSD model. You should also download an SSD diagnostic tool and try testing the drive for errors.

Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD