Woke up this morning to this Error Message

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Black screen, White writing:

Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in a selected boot device and press a key.

Right now I'm using a Kingston 120Gb SSD that is less than 1 year old

When I reboot and hit F8 it sees the drives including my boot drive which is a 128GB SSD, but

I tried sticking in a win 7 disk and running repair, says the disk has a incompatible version on windows 7, but it's exactly the same thing. Then I tried sticking in a system repair disk and it doesn't see the drive?

Am I screwed? Do i need to order a new SSD, reload windows then restore from my backup?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Old school? That depends on - My first computer was a 386SX using a RLL HDD. Back then it was recommended to power off at night - LOLs.

Best way to check to see if the drive is good.
Disconnect all drives from the system except the drive you want to work with, then:

"In the BIOS set the boot order to boot first from the CD/DVD Drive, insert the Windows 7 installation DVD and restart the PC, at the first black/screen hit the space bar for the "Press any key ... " prompt, then at the "Language" screen hold the "Shift" key and hit the F10 hot-key to open a command window." at the dos screen then type diskpart.

Probably do not need to go to bios as the Win 7 disk would be the only bootable drive, or just hit the hot key during...
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As a follow up question, I should be able to stick in an old HDD I have WD 500GB 3.0GBPS, install windows 7 on it then boot from that? Once I'm able to boot from that HDD I'll be able to restore all of my previous backups from my SSD C: drive on to that HDD won't I? Then use my PC that way while I go through the RMA process for my SSD. Just wondering if what I just said is feasible?
 
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A question, How did you first install the OS onto the SSD?
The preferred method is a CLEAN install with ALL other Hard drives disconnected and BIOS set to AHCI.
… Cloning may/may not properly align the partition, enable trim and disable defrag.
.. If a 2nd Hard drive was connected when installing OS, your SYSTEM partition may be on the HD, not the SSD.
.. BIOS should have been set to AHCI, NOT IDE mode.

Next, If you originally did the “proper” OS Install method:
A) If you had used windows 7 excellent Back up app (located in the control panel), the fix would be very simple and QUICK (about 15 Min), Just use the Windows disk, select repair, then select repair using an image file (This file would normally be on HDD).

B) IF not then as the comedian Bill Engvall would say “here’s your sign” – Joking – LOLs.

Yes, Probably the simplest way to fix is to Re-install the OS. Make sure you delete any and all partitions first before reinstall of OS – THEN after all Windows updates, all drivers, all programs are loaded and win 7 is running great – MAKE a system image of the SSD.

Just a comment: There is always the question of leaving a system on over night. Normally this is a question of longevity. But I always power off at night for the reason you just encountered. With an SSD power on only take a about 20 Sec Plus BIOS post time, so normally less than a minute.

How do you know the SSD is defective in order to RMA it, should test it first.
 
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Now that I just went back in and looked, the system is NOT Seeing the SDD at all, I had thought it was but what it was showing was the 2 different dvd drives(basic drive plus the DVDRW) and the HDD I have installed for storage. Now that I know 100% sure it's not even seeing the SDD I'm going to go in and take it out then replace it and see what happens, if it still won't see it I'm going to replace it with a HDD I have and then RMA the SDD drive.

per what you said about shutting it off leaving it on, I'm old school and used to leaving my PC on all the time. When I get my new SDD in I'll start shutting it off and see if that makes a difference?

Any hints as to how to make sure the SSD drive is bad or to force the pc to see it?

Thanks for your help and answers.

Kind of weird that the PC was fine when I went to bed and broke when I woke up? No power problems during the night or any other malfunctions in the house?
 
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Old school? That depends on - My first computer was a 386SX using a RLL HDD. Back then it was recommended to power off at night - LOLs.

Best way to check to see if the drive is good.
Disconnect all drives from the system except the drive you want to work with, then:

"In the BIOS set the boot order to boot first from the CD/DVD Drive, insert the Windows 7 installation DVD and restart the PC, at the first black/screen hit the space bar for the "Press any key ... " prompt, then at the "Language" screen hold the "Shift" key and hit the F10 hot-key to open a command window." at the dos screen then type diskpart.

Probably do not need to go to bios as the Win 7 disk would be the only bootable drive, or just hit the hot key during post that brings up a boot menu - ie on my gigabyte MB it is F12 and on my Asrock (Think it's the same as Asus) it is F11, then select the DVD drive.

Type the following:
List Disk This will display all drives attached, Look for the Number of the drive you want to work with.
Select Disk=n n equals the number found from list disk ONLY caution is the next command will execute on the selected disk
Clean or use Clean all see below Clean all may delete all partitions AND effectively do a secure erease.
exit to exit dos

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Removes any and all partition or volume formatting from the disk with focus. On master boot record (MBR) disks, only the MBR partitioning information and hidden sector information are overwritten. On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, the GPT partitioning information, including the Protective MBR, is overwritten; there is no hidden sector information.

all

Specifies that each and every sector on the disk is zeroed, which completely deletes all data contained on the disk.
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Ref: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(v=ws.10).aspx

IF Diskpart does NOT list the drive, Then Contact manuf for RMA, or they may have a additional test/method to try.
 
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After going through the kingston RMA process, I find that because they have replaced the SSD with another model number they will not replace the drive, they will only repair it. ROFL, just think, their drive failed under normal use, imagine how good it's going to be once it's returned "Repaired". How could I ever put this drive back into my system and have any faith in it?

I'll never use this drive again, nor will I ever buy a product from Kingston again! Just a word of warning to any of you out there who may be considering buying a Kingston SSD!
 
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I did those and the system still does not recognize the SSD at all? I installed the HDD I had, went in easy was able to load windows 7 on it but wasn't able to restore my backups to it like I wanted to? I use Todo backup/restore software from easus, I'm able to see the backups and i can even mount the backup as a drive, but as of right now I still can't access my documents, email and other stuff I need to get at? i was hoping I would be able to throw in the drive and then just restore everything to it, but so far that's not the case? I have an email in to easus/todo support waiting for them to get back to me and hopefully they can tell me what I did wrong? thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it.
 
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Sorry, Missed the question the first time. It was a clean install, this was a brand new build from scratch almost 1 year ago, originally had a bad PSU right out of the box, once that was replaced everything has been running flawlessly, oc'd as fast as this would go, then 1 week ago I got the exact same error when I woke up, shut down, restarted and it was fine until I woke up yesterday, couldn't see any kind of pattern in the activity logs etc.. so I just chalked it up to "one of those mystery things that happen with computers occasionally", now here I am sending back the SSD because it died on me. Gotta love PC hardware, lol. Seriously, since I started building my own pc's many years ago I think all of my problems have either been PSU or Hard Drive related, now I can add SSD to the list.
 
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