Posting problems after failed install of steamOS on hdd

[Hashfastr]

I have two hard drives, one 500Gb ssd and one 2 Tb hdd I have arch linux installed on the ssd, and has been bootable for almost 2 years, and I've always dual booted into the hdd for the most part, or had it just as extra storage, but during a failed install of steam OS, during the install setup I made sure it didnt overwrite it disable my main OS, arch linux, although during the install that I did from a bootable usb/micro sd on a usb adapter I kept failing to install one portion that is what I very well assume was the kernel I decided to abort, and when I tried to boot back into my main the computer wouldn't post, wouldn't go past the bios splash screen, I came to the conclusion that it will only do this if I have the ssd plugged in

Things I've tried
-reset bios/cmos
-swap around ram
-enabling achi
-reading every forum post ever

Please help it is finals week, I need a computer, and it's stressing me out enough already

 

[bailojustin]

Hopefully you have win 7, INsert a win 7 install disc, Remove all your drives but your main boot drive, set it to boot from cd.
After it boots from cd, click install, then bottom left corner click repair.
Now open command prompt
type Diskpart
type List Disk
look for your disk you wish to boot from
type select disk "x" X being the disk containing your primary boot partition
type select part 1
type Active

Now try rebooting your PC and booting from the primary disk that has your primary os in it.

 

[Hashfastr]

Hopefully you have win 7, INsert a win 7 install disc, Remove all your drives but your main boot drive, set it to boot from cd.
After it boots from cd, click install, then bottom left corner click repair.
Now open command prompt
type Diskpart
type List Disk
look for your disk you wish to boot from
type select disk "x" X being the disk containing your primary boot partition
type select part 1
type Active

Now try rebooting your PC and booting from the primary disk that has your primary os in it.

This does not work seeing if I have the ssd plugged in it won't go past bios post splash, nor can I enter bios

 

[Hashfastr]

Update: I changed the data settings to raid while looking on another thread, it goes to one splash screen, acts like it goes past it or goes into bios but then it pulls up another splash as if the bios is the splash screen

 

[Hashfastr]

So steamOS installer is horrible, I set it to only work on my secondary hard drive, but instead it failed the install, and corrupted my ssd and all the information on it, thanks steam

 

[bailojustin]

What you need to do, is unlpug all your drives but the disk drive, insert the 7 disc, make sure in your bios SATA 0 IS SET TO HOT PLUG ENABLED.
Load the computer, boot from disc, click install, then plug in your ssd and perform your repairs or reformat with command prompt disk part

 

[Hashfastr]

What you need to do, is unlpug all your drives but the disk drive, insert the 7 disc, make sure in your bios SATA 0 IS SET TO HOT PLUG ENABLED.
Load the computer, boot from disc, click install, then plug in your ssd and perform your repairs or reformat with command prompt disk part

Already fixed it, read my last post

 

[bailojustin]

Awe you shoulda waited for my response! I never use 3rd party software for installing important files or messing with prograMS/files that can cause irreversible damage.

 

[Hashfastr]

Awe you shoulda waited for my response! I never use 3rd party software for installing important files or messing with prograMS/files that can cause irreversible damage.

I used a linux mint install disk since I hate windows with a deep passion, besides gparted is one of the best ones out there, and hot plugging didn't work, so I had to trick it, and gparted was able to recognised it, and from there it had all of the partitions but none of the readable data, it didnt even recognize it as ext4, and when I tried to read the drive it very well put out alot of gibberish that basically said "your shits fucked bro"

 

[bailojustin]

Damn, thats very weird especially for a HDD. There has to be something going on with it. is there any chance you have gotten the computer back up and running? if so do you think you can run a diskmark and post me the results? The only reason all the data would become corrupted is a very large magnet, freezing cold temps, 250g lateral force, A virus/malware OR most commonly, a corrupt sector on the boot drive, this corrupt sector will literally spread to all the other sectors around it corrupting all information. I hope this is not what happened. They have partion recovery tools where you can still attempt to read your info off the disk.

 

[Hashfastr]

Damn, thats very weird especially for a HDD. There has to be something going on with it. is there any chance you have gotten the computer back up and running? if so do you think you can run a diskmark and post me the results? The only reason all the data would become corrupted is a very large magnet, freezing cold temps, 250g lateral force, A virus/malware OR most commonly, a corrupt sector on the boot drive, this corrupt sector will literally spread to all the other sectors around it corrupting all information. I hope this is not what happened. They have partion recovery tools where you can still attempt to read your info off the disk.

SSDs cant become corrupted by magnets, if you knew the core difference if hdds and ssds and how they are fundamentally different, the point is some how the SteamOS installer corrupted it even though I didn't have it set on install on it or near it, on a different hard drive, point being is that don't use steamOS yet, and the only way I could salvage it was to format it, seeing it was not recoverable or readable, and it still thought it had a OS on it but I would try to boot corrupted Arch linux and get stuck at bios

 

[bailojustin]

Damn, thats very weird especially for a HDD. There has to be something going on with it. is there any chance you have gotten the computer back up and running? if so do you think you can run a diskmark and post me the results? The only reason all the data would become corrupted is a very large magnet, freezing cold temps, 250g lateral force, A virus/malware OR most commonly, a corrupt sector on the boot drive, this corrupt sector will literally spread to all the other sectors around it corrupting all information. I hope this is not what happened. They have partion recovery tools where you can still attempt to read your info off the disk.

SSDs cant become corrupted by magnets, if you knew the core difference if hdds and ssds and how they are fundamentally different, the point is some how the SteamOS installer corrupted it even though I didn't have it set on install on it or near it, on a different hard drive, point being is that don't use steamOS yet, and the only way I could salvage it was to format it, seeing it was not recoverable or readable, and it still thought it had a OS on it but I would try to boot corrupted Arch linux and get stuck at bios

Sorry, I was reffering to a HHD, if you read the first sentance, I know the difference trust me. please take a look at my last post as it may help answer your question. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2896444/ssd-hot.html

 

[bailojustin]

The last post I made on that specific question covers alot of other SSD errors, you may want to look into it.