SSD Not Booting, Cannot Check Firmware

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DarthChicken

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Recently my computer decided to die: it refused to boot and my motherboard was apparently completely dead.

After replacing my motherboard and RAM, my computer now turns on. However, it will not boot into Windows, which remains installed on my Crucial C300 SSD. The SSD is being detected, and shows up on the boot list and in the Bios, but for some reason it will not boot off of it. However, when I try to reinstall/repair windows 7 with a disk, the install manager does not detect and previous images/installations of Windows.

My questions are:
1. How can I check my SSD's firmware, since I cannot boot into Windows in order to use hardware manager or any utility programs. I have tried putting a copy of the firmware update on a cd and booting off of it, but that just tossed me to the Bios screen.

2. If the firmware is current, what the devil is wrong with my SSD, and how to I fix it?

My SSD is a Crucial C300, my board is an Asus Z87-Plus, chipset is an i5.
 
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Hjgrove
Hi there,
First I would try disconnecting all drives apart from the SSD, then once the computer is on and running at the back you should see a small but called "Clear CMOS" Use a pen or something and hold that down, this will reset your bios and hopefully allow the BIOS to configure and detect the drive.
If that has failed you may want to do a clean install on the drive, but you will loose all the data on the drive if not copied to another drive.
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Hi there,
First I would try disconnecting all drives apart from the SSD, then once the computer is on and running at the back you should see a small but called "Clear CMOS" Use a pen or something and hold that down, this will reset your bios and hopefully allow the BIOS to configure and detect the drive.
If that has failed you may want to do a clean install on the drive, but you will loose all the data on the drive if not copied to another drive.
 
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Hey,

All other drives have been disconnected, or were never connected to the new motherboard. I have tried booting from the out-of-the-box motherboard Bios settings, again after trying to boot off the disk, and a third set of times after flashing to the newest Bios version.

A clean install is looking more likely. Does anyone have any ideas on how to tell if the SSD itself has somehow gone bad?

Thank you for your help and consideration.
 
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Right, to check if the ssd might be the culprit first.
Get your windows 7 repair disk, (if you haven't got one they are available on the internet and you can burn one from the control panel)
After that access command prompt on the repair disk after booting from it.
And type this in:

chkdsk /f

And this will check for errors.
 
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Hello, sorry it took me so long to get back to you all, school has been rather hectic of the late.

When I boot off the disk and run a chkdsk on /f, I receive the following message

"the type of file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected."

I then ran chkdsk on volume c and received the following message

"The type of the file system is ntfs. The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk might report errors when no corruption is present. Volume label is boot

Warning! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Warning! C parameter specified. Running chkdsk in read-only mode"

It then gave me a whole bunch of data on the C drive (I think). It did not detect any problems, bad sectors or anything else that was obviously problematic.
 
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