Windows 8.1 won't boot at all

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sean_kelly

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So I've had my PC maybe a day or so, no problems, I've shut it down and restarted it a couple of times with no problems. Today I restarted it and I got stuck in an "Preparing Automatic Repair" loop. I read up about it a bit, and tried to boot from my USB drive which has the ISO file on it. However, that just get's stuck on another loop (but with no message on it).

So any suggestions on what to do? All I can think to do now is somehow wipe my SSD and start a new install.

Motherboard is an Asrock Z87 Pro4 by the way, UEFI BIOS.
 
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sean_kelly

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Ok, cleared the CMOS and got the keyboard back up. And while browsing the BIOS I noticed that my SATA1 port wasn't showing up, even though I had an optical drive connected to it. So I disconnected it, restarted my PC and it went through a few things and now it's working.. weird.. I take it that means the optical drive is rubbish?
 
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