SSD Unbootable, "Insert Disk and Hit Enter"

dan.howard.c

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I just bought a new Samsung 850 and installed Win10 on it. It worked fine for abour a week, and then I took out and put back the RAM and now the SSD is unbootable (start up my computer and it skips to "Boot from CD. Please insert disk and hit enter"). I did move the SSD a bit during the process, but I didn't smash it against the case or anything so I doubt there's any physical damage.

I've played around with the BIOS changing everything from boot order to disabling RAID / AHCI, to disabling SMART drive, to resetting the bios. I also took out my secondary storage HDD. Nothing works though.

The only other thing that changed during this all is I updated one or two drivers the night before and there was originally a third HDD with another OS on it before that I took out at some point during trouble shooting.

Is the SSD corrupt or something? Do I need to reinstall Windows? If it is corrupt, why did this happen?
 
Solution
you can take the ssd out and see if you can see the data on it with a second rig...

you can take a spare HD and go thru the motions of installing a fresh OS build on it.... give you an idea....

verify all your hardware

memtest memory one at a time
PSU
reseat your graphics card or uninstall it if you have onboard
harddrive..... with a SSD it usually works or doesn't...

skitszo

Honorable
you can take the ssd out and see if you can see the data on it with a second rig...

you can take a spare HD and go thru the motions of installing a fresh OS build on it.... give you an idea....

verify all your hardware

memtest memory one at a time
PSU
reseat your graphics card or uninstall it if you have onboard
harddrive..... with a SSD it usually works or doesn't...
 
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USAFRet

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Did you put that drive back in and try it?

Did you install the OS on the new SSD while that other drive was connected?