- Aug 23, 2014
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Hello all, I'm new, and I'd like to preface this by saying I'm kind of really new to hardware, as my focus has always been software related, so I will try to understand what you're all saying to the best of my ability but please keep that in mind. That said, I have a pretty basic familiarity with some of the basic parts.
A bit of a backstory: I have a custom built PC that was assembled and picked out by a friend of mine who is very hardware savvy. Wonderful little PC and one of the neat things about it was that it had an SSD, 500GB to be precise. I had this for a bit more than a year, and then suddenly yesterday, while just watching YouTube, I went to the bathroom, came back, and my screen was.... odd. Everything went black and there were some error messages. I didn't really pay much mind to them because for some reason I was just thinking "Huh, I guess... something weird happened, whatever, I'll just reboot". Thinking back I believe they were saying things along the lines of various programs (background running programs like Skype or Hamachi) couldn't execute, which is weird because my computer had been on for a few hours by this point and everything had been running.
I turned on my computer again, since I had to do a hard reboot, and nothing was displaying at first. Once something finally displayed, it was telling me it was unable to reboot, that I needed a Windows Install Disc. I was confused, and worried by this point, but I put it in, tried to repair, and something seemed to happen, but upon restarting, same issue, it needed to repair, presumably. Except now it was saying I had the wrong version of Windows on the disc I had just used.
The same tech savvy friend comes over and he's working on it and soon we find that the BIOS pretty much isn't detecting ANYTHING from the SSD.
Flash forward to now, the only main change is we've put Windows on my HDD, and we're thinking my SSD may have failed.
I had been working on getting a lot of my projects that I had on my SSD ready for storage on cloud the past couple of days, and then this happened. Needless to say, I had a ton of very important things on there. Some things I had backed up, others I didn't. Regardless, I'm really hoping there's some way we might be able to extract the data without going to someone else and spending a ludicrous amount of money.
So I'm here, hoping someone out there knows exactly what the deal is and can tell me what to do, and, in short, is it a failed SSD, or is it just a weird error that affected my SSD?
A bit of a backstory: I have a custom built PC that was assembled and picked out by a friend of mine who is very hardware savvy. Wonderful little PC and one of the neat things about it was that it had an SSD, 500GB to be precise. I had this for a bit more than a year, and then suddenly yesterday, while just watching YouTube, I went to the bathroom, came back, and my screen was.... odd. Everything went black and there were some error messages. I didn't really pay much mind to them because for some reason I was just thinking "Huh, I guess... something weird happened, whatever, I'll just reboot". Thinking back I believe they were saying things along the lines of various programs (background running programs like Skype or Hamachi) couldn't execute, which is weird because my computer had been on for a few hours by this point and everything had been running.
I turned on my computer again, since I had to do a hard reboot, and nothing was displaying at first. Once something finally displayed, it was telling me it was unable to reboot, that I needed a Windows Install Disc. I was confused, and worried by this point, but I put it in, tried to repair, and something seemed to happen, but upon restarting, same issue, it needed to repair, presumably. Except now it was saying I had the wrong version of Windows on the disc I had just used.
The same tech savvy friend comes over and he's working on it and soon we find that the BIOS pretty much isn't detecting ANYTHING from the SSD.
Flash forward to now, the only main change is we've put Windows on my HDD, and we're thinking my SSD may have failed.
I had been working on getting a lot of my projects that I had on my SSD ready for storage on cloud the past couple of days, and then this happened. Needless to say, I had a ton of very important things on there. Some things I had backed up, others I didn't. Regardless, I'm really hoping there's some way we might be able to extract the data without going to someone else and spending a ludicrous amount of money.
So I'm here, hoping someone out there knows exactly what the deal is and can tell me what to do, and, in short, is it a failed SSD, or is it just a weird error that affected my SSD?
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