Windows Boot Error on SSD

Hi guys, this problem is kinda multi-layered, and I tend to be quite verbose.... So bear with me.

Initial Symptom:
Booted up the Computer this morning. As I recalled there was no major changes made to the system yesterday except for perhaps a Windows update. When the system attempts to load the desktop, it just shows me a Black Screen and freezes there. No mouse pointer whatsoever.

Upon the reboot, it tells me that I should run Startup recovery and insert my Windows disk. I only have the option to hit enter and not "Load last good config etc.". Anyway I insert my CD-rom but it did not seem to automatically boot into it.

So I proceeded to change the boot order - First boot from Hard Disk to CD-Rom drive and vice-versa (I am using Gigabyte motherboard that adds a delay of another 5 secs if CD rom drive is the first boot).

With this I managed to boot into the Windows Recovery Environment, but now it tells me that I have an "Unknown Windows Installation on (Unknown) Hard Disk.

I THINK in doing so I might have fudged the Bootrecord. So this is kinda problem #2. Anyway I go back to BIOS, revert the Boot order, then manually get it to boot into the CD-rom by hitting F12 (and cursing under my breath that I should've just done this from the start).

I disconnect my other 2 secondary hard drives to MAKE SURE that windows has no confusion whatsoever where the installation might be located. BUT ALAS, it still says that my Windows Installation is 'missing'. I tried using the bootrec.exe step, FixMBR, fixboot, rebuildbcd... But it gave me a bunch of errors... To a point where I rebooted into the recovery environment and it wasn't even showing me a HDD anymore.

However, despite this, if I leave the computer to be, it manages to get past the "Loading Windows" screen and then immediately Blue Screens with a stop error. So somehow, even though the Recovery environment isn't detecting Windows, it hasn't disappeared it's just umapped??

Somewhere down the line I managed to boot into safe mode. It briefly told me that my paging file size was going to be temporarily changed... Then it freezes and after a while my desktop disappears and black screens again.

I let it reboot again. After the 'Loading Operating System' option it started showing me some text about the RAID controller Realtek PCIe things and the computer's MAC address????? I reboot again.

This is currently where I'm at. I get past the 'Loading Windows' screen and it's now running chkdsk. Now it's just telling that File Record Segment ###### is unreadable and its been going for about 30mins straight now.

Was this whole problem just my SSD failing? Or did I create a bigger problem? :S

When you initially loaded windows onto your SSD did you enable AHCI ? If you did then chack and see if it is still enabled , maybe the setting has changed and you need to reset it to AHCI.

Update: Chkdsk turned out pretty anti-climatic. After telling me that my entire drive has that error, it pretty much hung when moving on to the other steps. I wonder if I caused the entire drive to fail because I messed with the boot record?

I also checked the BIOS. It is still in AHCI mode. Attempting to boot to Windows and skipping chkdsk just instantly gives me a BSOD stop error.

Meanwhile I'm just going to plug the SSD into another computer and attempt to salvage the data from it.

Might be the SSD is going bad? Kinda sounds that way based on the descrption of things here...