when my SSD is connected Windows 8 wont boot!

[Jonas Dixon]

I have had a problem with BSOD and other errors a couple of times a week for about 9 months now and suddenly a couple of days ago i got a normal MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSOD but when my computer restarted it wouldn't boot, it just loaded and loaded. I couldn't start my computer in safe mode or reformat the SSD so i decided to disconnect my SSD and install Windows 8 on my HDD so i could reformat my SSD but when i connected my SSD again i got the same problem even though i chose the HDD as boot drive.

Any help will be much appreciated!

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

I suspect the SSD is faulty. That can cause boot problems even when it's not the primary boot device.

 

[ArtPog]

1. Have you tested the SSD with the manufacturer's diagnostic program or some other diagnostic program that can test your SSD's health? Think that would be a good idea at this point-in-time?

2. Are you indicating that after you installed Win 8 on the HDD it booted & functioned without a problem? It was only after you connected the SSD as a secondary drive that the HDD failed to boot? That's what you're indicating? As Phillip has stated...it's not uncommon for a system to balk during the boot when a defective secondary drive has been connected even though there may be no problem with the boot drive.

3. Have you checked the BIOS to determine whether the system detects the SSD when you attempt to boot to the SSD?

 

[Jonas Dixon]

1. Have you tested the SSD with the manufacturer's diagnostic program or some other diagnostic program that can test your SSD's health? Think that would be a good idea at this point-in-time?

2. Are you indicating that after you installed Win 8 on the HDD it booted & functioned without a problem? It was only after you connected the SSD as a secondary drive that the HDD failed to boot? That's what you're indicating? As Phillip has stated...it's not uncommon for a system to balk during the boot when a defective secondary drive has been connected even though there may be no problem with the boot drive.

3. Have you checked the BIOS to determine whether the system detects the SSD when you attempt to boot to the SSD?

Yes i have checked bios and the system detects the SSD. I dont know how i can check the SSD for faults as i cant acces it i would need some help on how to do that.

 

[ArtPog]

Probably the best course of action would be to boot to your HDD and after a successful boot connect the SSD to the system. I'll assume the system will be stable at that point. Then access the website of the manufacturer of your SSD to download/install their SSD diagnostic program. Virtually every manufacturer of SSDs has such a program available.

If the above is impractical or just non-workable, try the Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS program which will allow you to create a bootable CD from the downloaded .iso image. Hopefully you have a CD/DVD burner program already installed in your system so as to burn the .iso image to a CD and create the bootable CD.
The website for downloading the bootable CD of Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS is...
http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_dos.php

If you don't have an .iso burner program available you can download the Free ISO Burner program from http://www.freeisoburner.com/
You'll be referred to another website for the actual download. Make sure when you proceed with the download you avoid selecting the garbage programs the download process will try to slip past you. I'm not sure if that's still the case with that program since I haven't used it in quite some time but I recall that was a problem area. Just download the Free ISO Burner program - nothing else.

So if you use the bootable CD just do so with only the SSD connected. The system should then boot to the CD without any user intervention. But if it doesn't, check the BIOS boot priority order so that the setting reflects a first boot to the CD. If the Sentinel program doesn't detect the SSD then shutdown, and also connect the HDD to the system (along with the SSD), and boot the CD to determine if the SSD is then detected and a report of its health is generated.

 

[Jonas Dixon]

Probably the best course of action would be to boot to your HDD and after a successful boot connect the SSD to the system. I'll assume the system will be stable at that point. Then access the website of the manufacturer of your SSD to download/install their SSD diagnostic program. Virtually every manufacturer of SSDs has such a program available.

If the above is impractical or just non-workable, try the Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS program which will allow you to create a bootable CD from the downloaded .iso image. Hopefully you have a CD/DVD burner program already installed in your system so as to burn the .iso image to a CD and create the bootable CD.
The website for downloading the bootable CD of Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS is...
http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_dos.php

If you don't have an .iso burner program available you can download the Free ISO Burner program from http://www.freeisoburner.com/
You'll be referred to another website for the actual download. Make sure when you proceed with the download you avoid selecting the garbage programs the download process will try to slip past you. I'm not sure if that's still the case with that program since I haven't used it in quite some time but I recall that was a problem area. Just download the Free ISO Burner program - nothing else.

So if you use the bootable CD just do so with only the SSD connected. The system should then boot to the CD without any user intervention. But if it doesn't, check the BIOS boot priority order so that the setting reflects a first boot to the CD. If the Sentinel program doesn't detect the SSD then shutdown, and also connect the HDD to the system (along with the SSD), and boot the CD to determine if the SSD is then detected and a report of its health is generated.

Thanks for the response! The thing is that when i have my SSD connected i cant boot even whit my HDD selected as main boot drive. I tried to use a recovery drive to access the SSD and do a system restore but it wouldn't boot so i doubt that it will boot with anything while its connected.

 

[ArtPog]

Probably the best course of action would be to boot to your HDD and after a successful boot connect the SSD to the system. I'll assume the system will be stable at that point. Then access the website of the manufacturer of your SSD to download/install their SSD diagnostic program. Virtually every manufacturer of SSDs has such a program available.

If the above is impractical or just non-workable, try the Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS program which will allow you to create a bootable CD from the downloaded .iso image. Hopefully you have a CD/DVD burner program already installed in your system so as to burn the .iso image to a CD and create the bootable CD.
The website for downloading the bootable CD of Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS is...
http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_dos.php

If you don't have an .iso burner program available you can download the Free ISO Burner program from http://www.freeisoburner.com/
You'll be referred to another website for the actual download. Make sure when you proceed with the download you avoid selecting the garbage programs the download process will try to slip past you. I'm not sure if that's still the case with that program since I haven't used it in quite some time but I recall that was a problem area. Just download the Free ISO Burner program - nothing else.

So if you use the bootable CD just do so with only the SSD connected. The system should then boot to the CD without any user intervention. But if it doesn't, check the BIOS boot priority order so that the setting reflects a first boot to the CD. If the Sentinel program doesn't detect the SSD then shutdown, and also connect the HDD to the system (along with the SSD), and boot the CD to determine if the SSD is then detected and a report of its health is generated.

Thanks for the response! The thing is that when i have my SSD connected i cant boot even whit my HDD selected as main boot drive. I tried to use a recovery drive to access the SSD and do a system restore but it wouldn't boot so i doubt that it will boot with anything while its connected.

1. Please note that I suggested that you should boot to the HDD WITHOUT the SSD being connected. Only after a successful boot should you connect the SSD. Then hopefully utilize a diagnostic program to test the health of the SSD. Understand this is a diagnostic procedure; it's not designed to remedy the problem. Should the diagnostic program indicate you're working with a defective SSD, c'est la vie - it's RMA time- assuming your warranty is still in effect.

2. Once more...if the above is impractical you can use a bootable CD to access the diagnostic tool I indicated. Again, this is a diagnostic program to determine if the SSD is defective.

 

[Jonas Dixon]

Probably the best course of action would be to boot to your HDD and after a successful boot connect the SSD to the system. I'll assume the system will be stable at that point. Then access the website of the manufacturer of your SSD to download/install their SSD diagnostic program. Virtually every manufacturer of SSDs has such a program available.

If the above is impractical or just non-workable, try the Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS program which will allow you to create a bootable CD from the downloaded .iso image. Hopefully you have a CD/DVD burner program already installed in your system so as to burn the .iso image to a CD and create the bootable CD.
The website for downloading the bootable CD of Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS is...
http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_dos.php

If you don't have an .iso burner program available you can download the Free ISO Burner program from http://www.freeisoburner.com/
You'll be referred to another website for the actual download. Make sure when you proceed with the download you avoid selecting the garbage programs the download process will try to slip past you. I'm not sure if that's still the case with that program since I haven't used it in quite some time but I recall that was a problem area. Just download the Free ISO Burner program - nothing else.

So if you use the bootable CD just do so with only the SSD connected. The system should then boot to the CD without any user intervention. But if it doesn't, check the BIOS boot priority order so that the setting reflects a first boot to the CD. If the Sentinel program doesn't detect the SSD then shutdown, and also connect the HDD to the system (along with the SSD), and boot the CD to determine if the SSD is then detected and a report of its health is generated.

Thanks for the response! The thing is that when i have my SSD connected i cant boot even whit my HDD selected as main boot drive. I tried to use a recovery drive to access the SSD and do a system restore but it wouldn't boot so i doubt that it will boot with anything while its connected.

1. Please note that I suggested that you should boot to the HDD WITHOUT the SSD being connected. Only after a successful boot should you connect the SSD. Then hopefully utilize a diagnostic program to test the health of the SSD. Understand this is a diagnostic procedure; it's not designed to remedy the problem. Should the diagnostic program indicate you're working with a defective SSD, c'est la vie - it's RMA time- assuming your warranty is still in effect.

2. Once more...if the above is impractical you can use a bootable CD to access the diagnostic tool I indicated. Again, this is a diagnostic program to determine if the SSD is defective.

Yes, and i actually tried that i removed the SSD installed windows 8 on my HDD without any problems then i connected my SSD choose my HDD as boot drive but it still got stuck in boot.