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Hi all,

I brought a PC from a friend about 6 months ago, Im a gamer but not a PC tech pro or anything.

Anyway its been awesome and I have had no problems up until Sat morning when I turned it on to see "Reboot and Select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"

I used it Friday night and shut it down no problems! Now I cannot boot!

Specs;

50GB SSD - It boots from this drive
1 TB HDD
8GB RAM
I7 250 @ 3.4ghz
Radeon hd 7970 3gb

I really feel like the problem is a simple one to fix (even though I currently dont know how to fix) so although I have opened the case and checked the connections are all tight I have not done much else because I dont want to cause another problem!

Thanks in advance anyone who can help!!
 
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the new pc... or any pc, wont boot with your old HDD. you would need to back up the OS with acronis and restore using Universal Restore. that will restore your OS and drive partitions to a new hard drive but it would strip away the drivers associated with that systems hardware. pop universally restored drive into any new pc and boot it, then load drivers and wham... old PC on new hardware.

by "lost your computer" I mean if you don't have a backup of the OS/files from the apparently failed SSD, then getting windows and all the files back is not likely.

try using the old PC (amd I assume?) and plugging in the SSD. if bios doesn't see it, then you likely have a bad drive.
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that message comes up when the bios does not detect a bootable drive... check your hard drive (ssd) connections inside the machine, make sure all the SATA connectors are firmly in place, and try again... if it does not work, try switching the port on the motherboard that the hard drive is plugged into. if that doesn't work theres a strong possibility your SSD crapped out.
 
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Ok - I forgot to add actually that I think my BIOS (I had a quick peek in the settings) detects the SSD... Which means its still alive?

I had this problem one time a month ago but 1 reboot without touching anything fixed it.

Edit - Just to answer the above, I dont know as I am at work but ill check when I get home and post.

Also, I download alot - Could this be a virus playing with my machine settings?

 
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a virus would have to access your boot partition in order to do something like that, and provided you have some kind of antivirus software, would have been prevented easily. the big question is to do with brand/model, as some manufacturers were notorious for issues such as the 8MB bug in intel's 320 series SSDs. this problem causes the SSD to be detected, but only as an 8MB partition drive, and will prevent you from booting. a firmware update to the SSD solves that particular issue. so get back to me on the make/model of the drive, also what size its being seen as by your bios.
 
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Ok so my lovely P8P67 PRO mobo has a nice red light by "boot failure" that comes on and what i thought was my SSD in bios is actually my cd drive (lol) so its not recognising my SSD is there.

The SSD is a OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 2.5 SSD
 
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eek. vertex 2. not super dependable IMO. odds are if bios can no longer see the drive, its toast. I hope you have a backup. ifyou do, restore it to a NEW ssd and you should be fine. if not, im afraid you lost your computer.
 
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Arrrrr... when u say "lost my computer" you just mean that drive right?? Lol

So i have my old wd raptor 7500rpm that has my old OS etc on it (win7 and never got around to wiping / ebaying it) anyway plugged that in amd it tried to boot (but failed, then failed after i tried to repair) so its there but i could not see that in bios either which is odd...
 
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the new pc... or any pc, wont boot with your old HDD. you would need to back up the OS with acronis and restore using Universal Restore. that will restore your OS and drive partitions to a new hard drive but it would strip away the drivers associated with that systems hardware. pop universally restored drive into any new pc and boot it, then load drivers and wham... old PC on new hardware.

by "lost your computer" I mean if you don't have a backup of the OS/files from the apparently failed SSD, then getting windows and all the files back is not likely.

try using the old PC (amd I assume?) and plugging in the SSD. if bios doesn't see it, then you likely have a bad drive.
 
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Cool, well thanks for your help so far. I shall plug the SSD into my old machine and see if its viewable. Failing that its see whether the drive is still in warranty but re-installing windows fresh on a different drive so my rig is up and running... bleh...
 
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