Did my SSD corrupt my MOBO Boot Sector?

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

Just put a new Crucial SSD in my SATA3 connector and now it seems my computer wont boot to windows anymore. My Samsung EVO 850 SSD that runs my OS is still being detected, but when I go to select that drive to boot off of, it comes up with a bios message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device." Which when I hit F11 to go to boot priority it goes back to this exact same screen.

When I installed the new SSD I simply removed the power and sata cable and placed them into the new SSD. I took out the old HDD which was having problems, blue screening. I did not move any of the cables from the other drives.

Could it have fried my boot sector on my mobo? Because in Bios it still shows my Samsung Evo SSD as detected, but it can't find an OS. And I highly doubt it deleted the OS off the drive. But this is an issue I've never had before so I have very little to go off of.

Going to see if its just the drive by installing my OS on the new Crucial SSD and see if it takes, then I can rule out that its my boot sector and that the issue is my Samsung Evo SSD. However I'm sceptical because nothing was changed prior to the new install and everything went to crap once i started up the computer with the new SSD.

bgunner · Jan 6, 2016

Enter your BIOS then into your Boot menu in them. Find your Boot priority and select the proper drive that has your OS as the first boot device. This will fix your issue.

Boot sectors are actually located on a disk and not the motherboard so you did not do anything to it.

Because you added a "new" disk tothe system it can mess with the boot order causing your issue.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

Your motherboard has no boot sector. There is no such thing.

Now....You had the SSD with the OS, and an HDD.
After removing the HDD, (and before the other SSD) did it boot correctly?

Meaning:
With the Samsung drive, and the HDD, did it boot?
With the Samsung only, did it boot?

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

bgunner :

Ah good to know.
I did this and it still came up with the black screen and white text. Reboot and Select proper Boot device."

And when i tell it to boot off the SSD OS drive it goes to that screen now.

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

USAFRet :

I never tested to see if there was issues with removing the old HDD.

With the samsung only it does not boot.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

Take out that new Crusial SSD. That is just added crap

Does the system boot from the Samsung?
If not, does the System boot when you have the Samsung AND the old HDD connected?

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

I have already reset my Bios to default, which wasn't much different than I had prior. I also have removed all the other Sata cables. So as it is right now, only the Samsung is plugged in.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

OK...reconnect the old HDD
Does it boot?

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

USAFRet :

Gonna try this next.

bgunner · Jan 6, 2016

Wondering if the boot manager is corrupted. Reason I'm questioning is if the OS is actually on the 850 SSD and the Bios boot order is correct then the OS should boot no matter what (or at least try with issues and possible crashing) unless the fore mentioned issue arises.

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

bgunner :

Not sure how i'd go about fixing it. Currently hooking up the old HDD.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

dankcik09 :

To 'fix', we must find the problem.

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

WINDOWS BOOTS WITH THE OLD HDD!!!!!

Now I have ZERO idea whats going on!

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

So currently I have the Samsung SSD + the old Samsung Spinpoint HDD. Booted right up.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

dankcik09 :

I know exactly what is going on.

When you installed the OS on the SSD, you had both drives connected.
The System Reserved partition (boot info) ended up on the HDD.
Remove that HDD, and no boot for you.

Possible fix:
Do you have your Windows install media handy?
If so...disconnect all drives except the SSD (Samsung)
Boot from that install media, and go to the Repair function.

Do what it says
This MIGHT fix it.

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

USAFRet :

Okay. So ill stick my win7 disc in, making sure only the EVO SSD is plugged in. Then click repair?

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

indsup · Jan 6, 2016

Your old drive is what holds your OS. The SSD is blank so it will not have anything for the computer to boot off of. You will have to reinstall the old drive and make a backup copy of it if you do not have one already. or you can try to clone the old drive to the SSD. It will not be a copy from/to operation it doesn't work like that. To boot into your os you will have to reinstall the old drive and set it as the boot drive. Only then can you boot up your os. The only other option you have is, (if you have your windows disk install from that on the clean ssd drive. If possible this would be the best way. Then you can migrate everything from the old drive and have most everything like you had it before.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

indsup :

Given this statement from the OP:

My Samsung EVO 850 SSD that runs my OS is still being detected

How do you come up with:
"The SSD is blank so..."

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

Trying to run the Startup Repair, but it doesnt detect the OS to be selected.
"It states that If your OS isn't listed, click Load Drivers and then install drivers for your hard disks.

Now I need to find drivers for my EVO SSD? Which I've no idea where those are. Does that mean I need to go to Samsung support and find them, download them. Then restart the computer and select that file/exe?

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

Yeah that aint gonna work because there are none. Ok. I'm slightly lost.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

Let's back up a bit.

With the SSD AND the old HDD connected, it boots up. Right?
Where, precisely is the OS, and how did it get there? Specifically.
Can you post a screencap showing this...

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

USAFRet :

With the SSD and the old HDD it starts up, Without the HDD it does not.

Currently I only have the SSD Samsung EVO connect with a win7 disk in the dvd drive to startup repair.
So in the image it shows my 250gb evo ssd with its C Drive and Boot partition? as well as my DVD Drive with the win7 disc inside.

USAFRet · Jan 6, 2016

A screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

And how, exactly, did the OS get on the 250GB SSD?

dankcik09 · Jan 6, 2016

USAFRet :

I installed it on that SSD as my boot drive. the EVO was bought solely to run the OS.

I'm plugging the old HDD to boot the drive ans screenshot the disk manager.

Did my SSD corrupt my MOBO Boot Sector?

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