My SSD Boot drive is locked preventing me from accessing backup win 10

kwjorders

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I just migrated to a new motherboard and kept both my 120GB SSD boot drive and 2TB Storage Drive and after setting up the new hardware I get a black screen telling me to do a repair install to fix it. Once I get the win. 10 disc booted off of I am unable to perform a repair install and it tells me that the SSD drive is locked. I was wondering after looking for solutions online if this is something that happens when SSD drives start to fail and if I replaced it if I could get back into my backup windows 10 stuff. Also since its locked would this prevent me from cloning it. I'd like to note that I still have my backups and can get them back on the drives anytime. If this is a symptom of a dying SSD that should be replaced and how likely is it to fail in the future?
-Thank you for your time.
I tested my SSD and it said it's good now, though in my bios Windows Boot Manager appears as my top spot for the boot order in addition to my SSD, is this bad as some times when I try to reboot or start the computer it freezes, this doesn't happen very often but is concerning.
-Thank you for your time again.
 
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This happened to me also. And my fix worked.

I had a cIean install of Win 10 Pro x64; which was running well for about 3 weeks. We had a brown out in the neighborhood and I received an NTLDR error. I tried using the repair tool from my Win 10 Pro x64 USB ISO; then attempted a startup repair. Overall, everything I attempted using the repair tool and startup repair from the aforementioned ISO, failed.

Simply, I wanted to use the ISO to get my PC back up and running. So I wanted to see why my PC was not booting after BIOS. Here are my steps.

1. PC/ON and Enter Boot Options
2. I chose my Win 10 Pro x64 USB ISO
3. I chose Install (instead of Repair)
4. At the option of choosing Partitions, I noticed I had 3 partitions. I deleted every...

BadAsAl

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Just had this happen to a client. Drive was accessible via drive Caddy but would not boot. Ran manufacturers tool and it said SSD tested good. Attempting Windows repair said drive was locked. After messing around I just ended up backing all her stuff up and then doing a clean install and everything is fine now. So no I don't think it is the drive failing, I think your Windows Boot Manager got corrupted or as the other poster stated, changing the motherboard requires fresh install. By the way, this SSD was in the laptop when she bought it and no other hardware changed.
 

Christen Stock

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This happened to me also. And my fix worked.

I had a cIean install of Win 10 Pro x64; which was running well for about 3 weeks. We had a brown out in the neighborhood and I received an NTLDR error. I tried using the repair tool from my Win 10 Pro x64 USB ISO; then attempted a startup repair. Overall, everything I attempted using the repair tool and startup repair from the aforementioned ISO, failed.

Simply, I wanted to use the ISO to get my PC back up and running. So I wanted to see why my PC was not booting after BIOS. Here are my steps.

1. PC/ON and Enter Boot Options
2. I chose my Win 10 Pro x64 USB ISO
3. I chose Install (instead of Repair)
4. At the option of choosing Partitions, I noticed I had 3 partitions. I deleted every partition that did not have my WIN 10 installed. I only kept the partition with only my current WIN 10 Installation.
5. I pressed the X at the top right of the box and ended Installation. (Knowing I only have 1 partition available with WIN 10)
6. I rebooted the PC, entered my Win 10 Pro x64 USB ISO.
7. This time instead of choosing install, I chose repair.
8. I used the startup repair option. It diagnosed my startup and repaired it.

I'm up and running again.

I hope this helps some of you out.

~Chris
 
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