SSD stopped booting after toying around with BIOS

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Hello there,

I have two operating systems in the computer, one that is working on a western digital 1TB hard drive, and one working on a kingston 500GB SSD. Both windows 10.

I use the OS in the SSD ever since I bought it last year, but the the last week I wanted to check if the OS on the HDD was still working, so I tried to boot from there (I couldn't). After that the SSD didn't boot automatically and didn't appear in the boot priority list, so each time I wanted to turn on the computer I had to enter the bios and specify the SSD partition to boot.

And then I readed somewhere around the forums that, for the SSD to appear again in the boot priority list I had to reset the bios (later I discovered that unplugging the other SATAs was the way).

And ever since then I haven't been able to boot from the SSD, I have ran into an startup repair infinite loop. I tried several things I found on the network without success, so this is my last desperate call before I'm forced to fresh install windows 10.

I think it may be repairable but I don't know how, please help!
If important information is missing ask me please.

Thank you a lot,
Gerard
 
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Use a Windows Install/repair cd to get to a command line.

use: sfc /scannow

This runs the System File Checker and tells it to scan the drive. Sometimes it's that simple. If not, you'll have to look up how to use the bootrec command, or as a last resort, reinstalling windows.
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Use a Windows Install/repair cd to get to a command line.

use: sfc /scannow

This runs the System File Checker and tells it to scan the drive. Sometimes it's that simple. If not, you'll have to look up how to use the bootrec command, or as a last resort, reinstalling windows.
 
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Maybe you have changed your SATA control method inside the bios. It could be either IDE or AHCI, try swaping back to the other one. if you are still unable to boot this may not be the issue and you can restore back to its original setting.
 
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IIRC it probably wouldn't get as far as install repair if you accidentally did this. Still worth checking though.




This will probably fix the issue in my experience. At a minimum can't hurt anything.
 
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