Unmountable Boot Volumn

[TomRK55]

I upgraded my BIOS for SPECTRE and now get "unmountable boot drive" error. My computer is dead. I checked the BIOS and it seems to be installed correctly. How do I recover? I can't even boot my computer. [strike]Hard[/strike] Drive is a Samsung SSD.

 

[henryjamesguest]

Try removing the sata date cable from the SSD then booting into the bios without it. Then shut down and re plug in the sata cable and see if it resets.

 

[TomRK55]

Tried henryjamesguest suggestion. Didn't help. Took drive out and put it into my desktop computer and tried to boot from it. Nothing. Tried to read it as an auxiliary drive. Nothing. It must be dead. Is it a coincidence that it died at the exact moment that I updated the BIOS to protect against SPECTRE? I strongly advise others to not update your BIOS with the SPECTRE update.

My computer was an HP laptop. I got the BIOS update from the HP support website. I will buy a good old fashioned HDD to replace it. This was my first and last SSD. I bought my first computer with an HDD in 1985 (10 MB?). I have never had an HDD fail on me except one that was DOA.

 

[henryjg02]

Do you have a way to test it with another computer? That way we can figure out if it's the computer or the drive.