Last night my HTPC began giving me a Windows Boot Manager error, code: 0xc00000e9. An unexpected I/O error has occured. I read that it could be the SATA controller so I connected my DVD drive to where the boot drive was and was able to run memtest so I concluded the controller was ok.
My next step was to take another SSD with windows on it that I know works and boot the HTPC with it. I did not get the WBM error, but I got a message saying there was no bootable device and to press enter when there was. So now I thought maybe it was the controller afterall. I disconnect the known working SSD and put it back in the other machine but now that machine is giving me the no bootable device error.
I can read the SSD if I connect it to a computer not as the boot device, so it's not fried, but I'm at a complete loss as to what happened and how to go about fixing it. I have 3 SSDs at this point which all have working copies of Windows on them and all 3 cannot boot anymore.
My next step was to take another SSD with windows on it that I know works and boot the HTPC with it. I did not get the WBM error, but I got a message saying there was no bootable device and to press enter when there was. So now I thought maybe it was the controller afterall. I disconnect the known working SSD and put it back in the other machine but now that machine is giving me the no bootable device error.
I can read the SSD if I connect it to a computer not as the boot device, so it's not fried, but I'm at a complete loss as to what happened and how to go about fixing it. I have 3 SSDs at this point which all have working copies of Windows on them and all 3 cannot boot anymore.
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