I have an ssd for boot and a hard drive do storage... I has to go out so I held the power button in to get it shut down quick when I turned it back on it was all fine and dandy until it froze I couldn't do anything so I had to hold the power button in again but this time it said boot mngr was missing this is because it was trying to boot off my hard drive which has no operating system. The system no longer even recognizes the ssd I've switched it's sata slots I've tried everything I just don't know what to do anymore. What's happened?
My SSD has suddenly stopped working
- Thread starter iarcherz
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DarkSable
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- Sep 27, 2012
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If you have a 4 gig usb stick and another computer you have access to, you can make yourself a windows 7 usb install disk very easily - just google how to make that phrase and there will be plenty of tutorials. Getting a windows 8 one is more difficult, because there's not an open place to legally download a copy of the disk .iso for it.
iarcherz, DarkSable,
Very similar, almost the same, problem just happened to me (within the last hour), and I fixed it solo before finding this post. Here's what happened:
I have a brand new tower, 4 days old, with a Panasonic 120GB SSD for windows and intensive games, and a 2TB Seagate for storage and downloading. (Model numbers omitted, but new OEM.) While I was at work, I think there was a power interruption hard-reboot at home. I got back to find the same 'bootmgr missing message. Repeatedly.
Here's what I did (that worked):
Before swapping out the SSD to either of the 2 SATA slots working, I re-flashed the BIOS. I turned off the 'Automatic' SATA detection, enabled the post-SATA functionality option (name forgotten already, but the hierarchy is IDE->SATA->post-SATA-Advanced-Something-4-letter-acronym), I re-detected the drives, and swapped the boot order so the SSD was first again.
Nothing lost (Google chrome even remembered my open websites), and no fiddling inside the case. But DarkSable has a good suggestion - always keep a backup of (any-even back to XPSP3) old windows on CD (not DVD) in case your system fracks up. Same file will fit on a 1GB memory card, but then required USB2.0+ to handle it.
Hope anyone else with the same issues solves them tickety-boo.
Very similar, almost the same, problem just happened to me (within the last hour), and I fixed it solo before finding this post. Here's what happened:
I have a brand new tower, 4 days old, with a Panasonic 120GB SSD for windows and intensive games, and a 2TB Seagate for storage and downloading. (Model numbers omitted, but new OEM.) While I was at work, I think there was a power interruption hard-reboot at home. I got back to find the same 'bootmgr missing message. Repeatedly.
Here's what I did (that worked):
Before swapping out the SSD to either of the 2 SATA slots working, I re-flashed the BIOS. I turned off the 'Automatic' SATA detection, enabled the post-SATA functionality option (name forgotten already, but the hierarchy is IDE->SATA->post-SATA-Advanced-Something-4-letter-acronym), I re-detected the drives, and swapped the boot order so the SSD was first again.
Nothing lost (Google chrome even remembered my open websites), and no fiddling inside the case. But DarkSable has a good suggestion - always keep a backup of (any-even back to XPSP3) old windows on CD (not DVD) in case your system fracks up. Same file will fit on a 1GB memory card, but then required USB2.0+ to handle it.
Hope anyone else with the same issues solves them tickety-boo.
Daniel_196
Commendable
- Mar 28, 2016
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Woow i nearly bought new ssd ... I hope it will work i will try in Few minutes and i will inform u if its works, Thank you
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