My home built system is about 3 years old and I think my SSD (the boot drive) may have just given out on me.
I was updating drivers today through the EVGA website and downloaded all the recommended drivers that were compatible with the X58 SLI LE mobo. I update sound, chipset, network, and BIOS drivers and installed all of them and flashed the BIOS. After installing the Intel RAID management (looking back, I don't know why I did this because I don't have a RAID setup) I rebooted the system and at the point where Windows 7 usually starts up I got a blue screen for about a second then the computer rebooted. I ran the Microsoft recovery tool on the next start up but it could not fix the problem.
After this I went into my BIOS setup and noticed that my SSD was no longer the boot drive but my Western Digital 2TB drive was listed in SATA0 and set to the boot drive and my SSD was in SATA1. I'm assuming flashing the BIOS reset all the settings to default.
Well after once again trying to restart Windows and getting the blue screen I went back into BIOS only to see that my SSD was no longer being recognized.
So my question is twofold: Is my SSD dead and if it is will replacing it and reinstalling Windows 7 onto a new SSD harm my 2TB HDD?
The SSD didn't have any critical data on it but my HDD has a ton of programs, games, Steam, and other files on it that I would like to be able to recover.
Will I be able to install a new SSD and be able to plug-and-play my HDD with all the programs it has installed on it and use it like I was before, or will I have to wipe it too and reinstall all my games/programs?
Sorry for the long post, when I'm bummed out I tend to ramble on.
Thank you.
Edit: The SSD is the boot drive
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