- Mar 13, 2014
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I bought a Corsair Force Series GS CSSD-F360GBGS-BK 2.5" 360GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive about 3 months ago. Got it up and running about 2.5 months ago. Yesterday, I tried to turn on the computer and it goes right to BIOS. BIOS sees both my drives (an SSD with windows 7 64-bit installed and an HDD as data storage). But, BIOS only sees the drive size on the HDD. No other data is found or able to be browsed via BIOS attempts.
Previous night I do not recall doing anything that could have caused such a problem. Did some graphic design. I open and closed Adobe editing software like After Effects and Premier. And that was it.
What I've done so far:
Tried to check a number of BIOS settings ranging from boot designation to manual booting from SSD. Checked some other settings like RAM, voltage, and BIOS settings and they all seemed normal.
Tried putting SSD in a second computer and disconnected all other drives. It didn't even recognize anything was plugged in. Put it back into main computer and tried booting off of Windows 7 Disc. Got it up, and Windows can't see the SSD. It sees the HDD, but for some reason, it doesn't recognize any backup files like my system recovery files (which I thought I stored on both drives for just such a problem). I tried doing bootrec.exe repairs. I used on both the default X: prompt and C: prompt. Nothing worked.
Went through these cmd prompt commands:
C:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /Rebuild Bcd
Now that I think of it, I didn't do it to X drive but will once I get out of the office. Let's assume for now the same results below occur. C: was designated my SSD, though, so going off of my storage device shouldn't result in any progress.
When typing out "cd boot" it claimed nothing was recognized. When typing out "attrib bcd -s -h -r" in cmd prompt, it claimed -r was not recognizable. And when I typed "bootrec.exe /FixBoot" I would get an "Element not found" error. It also claimed there was no recognizable Windows installation on either X or C drive. Tried to rebuild and it claimed it was successful even though it didn't recognize a Windows install. Restart = same boot to BIOS unless I boot to disc.
If you anyone can help, I have a $30,000 project on this drive and really need this drive up and running. Anything would be appreciated. So far, no local store gave me much confidence in pulling data from the drive.
Previous night I do not recall doing anything that could have caused such a problem. Did some graphic design. I open and closed Adobe editing software like After Effects and Premier. And that was it.
What I've done so far:
Tried to check a number of BIOS settings ranging from boot designation to manual booting from SSD. Checked some other settings like RAM, voltage, and BIOS settings and they all seemed normal.
Tried putting SSD in a second computer and disconnected all other drives. It didn't even recognize anything was plugged in. Put it back into main computer and tried booting off of Windows 7 Disc. Got it up, and Windows can't see the SSD. It sees the HDD, but for some reason, it doesn't recognize any backup files like my system recovery files (which I thought I stored on both drives for just such a problem). I tried doing bootrec.exe repairs. I used on both the default X: prompt and C: prompt. Nothing worked.
Went through these cmd prompt commands:
C:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /Rebuild Bcd
Now that I think of it, I didn't do it to X drive but will once I get out of the office. Let's assume for now the same results below occur. C: was designated my SSD, though, so going off of my storage device shouldn't result in any progress.
When typing out "cd boot" it claimed nothing was recognized. When typing out "attrib bcd -s -h -r" in cmd prompt, it claimed -r was not recognizable. And when I typed "bootrec.exe /FixBoot" I would get an "Element not found" error. It also claimed there was no recognizable Windows installation on either X or C drive. Tried to rebuild and it claimed it was successful even though it didn't recognize a Windows install. Restart = same boot to BIOS unless I boot to disc.
If you anyone can help, I have a $30,000 project on this drive and really need this drive up and running. Anything would be appreciated. So far, no local store gave me much confidence in pulling data from the drive.
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