This morning I turned on my PC and it appeared with the message 'An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system'.
I checked the BIOS and on the MSI board explorer it could only detect my DVD Drive (D Drive) and HDD (E Drive) My SSD is the C Drive with Windows 8.1 on. I swapped sata cables, ports and PSU power cables (if the SSD had no power) but still all ports and sata cables are working.
I began to think ok its time for a new SSD even though i have had it for around 6 months. However it comes up with the new windows 8 install screen when i put the win 8 disl in the cd drive, when:
CD Drive & SSD in (YES)
CD Drive (YES)
CD Drive & HDD (NO)
HDD (NO)
SSD (NO)
When i go to install on CD Drive & SSD, and i chose a drive to put it on there is nothing.
Is it the case of me getting a new SSD? That will be okay, all of my important files are stored on the HDD, so if i install win 8 on a new ssd will my hdd keep all its data?
Many thanks, help is needed quickly!
System:
MSI Z87-G43 Mobo
i5-4670k @4.2 GHz
8GB Kingston RAM
MSI AMD R9 290x
Corsair 750W PSU
Kingston 120GB SSD now (With Win 8.1)
1TB HDD
I checked the BIOS and on the MSI board explorer it could only detect my DVD Drive (D Drive) and HDD (E Drive) My SSD is the C Drive with Windows 8.1 on. I swapped sata cables, ports and PSU power cables (if the SSD had no power) but still all ports and sata cables are working.
I began to think ok its time for a new SSD even though i have had it for around 6 months. However it comes up with the new windows 8 install screen when i put the win 8 disl in the cd drive, when:
CD Drive & SSD in (YES)
CD Drive (YES)
CD Drive & HDD (NO)
HDD (NO)
SSD (NO)
When i go to install on CD Drive & SSD, and i chose a drive to put it on there is nothing.
Is it the case of me getting a new SSD? That will be okay, all of my important files are stored on the HDD, so if i install win 8 on a new ssd will my hdd keep all its data?
Many thanks, help is needed quickly!
System:
MSI Z87-G43 Mobo
i5-4670k @4.2 GHz
8GB Kingston RAM
MSI AMD R9 290x
Corsair 750W PSU
Kingston 120GB SSD now (With Win 8.1)
1TB HDD
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