A disk read error occurred. Due to dead SSD?

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peetzie

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Hi,

I am having an issue where I turn on the PC I'm faced the with disk read error message. I have isolated both the HDDs in the machine, #1 is Samsung Evo 120GB SSD and #2 is WD 1TB HDD. When I run the SSD on its own, the machine displays the message -

"Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert boot media in selected boot drive and press a key"

When I run the HDD on its own I get the disk read error message.

Windows 8.1 is on the SSD.

I am not convinced the SSD is dead, as it shows up in the BIOS and can be selected as a boot option. I have tried changing boot options from one drive to another and one time I did this and Windows booted up. No idea why this happened but it did, which leaves me to believe there is an issue with the drive rather than it being completely dead.

However I have no been able to repeat the the luck when windows booted up. I noticed the time it did boot up it told me to restart the machine to resolve driver issues. Not sure if that has anything to do with the problem of the SSD.

I have reset the BIOS and ran defaults but this does not solve anything.
I've changed SATA cables but still the same issue.

I'll provide the link to an imgur album with some images if you think they will help.

Thanks,
Peter

http://imgur.com/a/97pnq
 
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Mark_1970

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Sometimes when people install windows, they have both the operating drive and the storage drive attached before the windows install. Windows will create the system partition on the storage drive and it needs this to run/boot, they don't see this system partition and format the 2nd drive or remove it and now windows won't start, giving these kind of messages?
When you install windows other than in raid mode, you should always only have the one HDD/SSD connected during install, making windows create this system partition of the same drive as the op

Sata mode should be AHCI
 
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peetzie

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Sadly I'm not that familiar with the term 'slave storage' so I will have a look at what this means.

When building the PC I had both drives connected with all the other components and installed Windows via USB as I don't have a disk drive.

I saw that my SSD was on AHCI and tried running on the different options which were IDE and RAID. This didn't change anything, although I did notice a difference in the time it took for the error message appear when running on RAID.

Should I confirm both drives are running in AHCI mode or will it not make a difference at this point?

Thanks

 
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Mark_1970

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I don't think you get it yet, You installed windows with both drives connected. when you do that, it makes it's system partition on the second drive which is undesirable because if anything happens to that data on that 2nd drive (overwritten, formatted,disconnected) windows won't start again, because it relies on the 2nd HDD to do so
You want to install windows with only one drive attached to force windows to use the same drive to create this system partition. And yes you want to be in AHCI mode in bios before install, this will set all drives on pc to AHCI as well, which you want

*P.s i use terms like slave drive, just means 2nd drive, this term was used in the 80's/90's :p , they also called the primary drive, the Master
 
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