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SSD has black screen of death, can anybody please help me.

Apr 3, 2018
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So I have been trying to fix my USB drivers for the past 6 months and had been having varying degrees of success on my Windows 10 Pro SSD but then I heard about linux and how it doesn't need drivers or could just replace them instantly, so I decided to test it out on another drive (this one being a 1TB HDD) and that didn't help my com,puter at all so I decided to get rid of it, then my SSD suddenly had the black screen of death and whenever I try to perform Control-Alt-Delete, it doesn't work and just goes straight back into the BIOS loading screen, if anybody could help me then that would mean the world to me.

Here is the piece of the Black Screen: https://imgur.com/7aby6Tz
 
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That looks like something is still tryingnto initialize some sort of hardware, or it isn’t booting to the right device.

Try and unplug every USB device except your keyboard and mouse. If that doesnt work, upon bootup before the black screen, hit delete on your keyboard (or f2 whatever lands you in the BIOS). Once in the BIOS, make your SSD the first boot option. Save and reboot. Let me know your results.
 


I have tried what you have said such as removing all of the USB devices and making the SSD the first boot option but that has worked at all, do you think I should use a new windows 10 disc to just make the thing work like new again because I can't access my files on my other hard drive as well as using EasyBCD to try and clear up the Linux files that I did not want on my computer though I think that might have also affected my SSD a fair bit, I'm not quite sure, I'm still learning quite a bit about computers though.
 


Can you install Linux once more and get your files first? Then you can fresh install but I don’t want your files being lost.
 
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