Startup mess up

[sora1202]

Ok, I'll admit to it, I f'd up my software horribly (It's only been a week ) . It all started with a rather slow startup. I get irritated and do a hard reset, and it continues like this until I corrupt the startup sequence in the system files. I attempt to repair my files, but my machine doesn't sense a hard drive connected. In a fit, I do some hard resets (yes, how foolish) and now not even the startup disc will work. Is this FUBAR or is there a way to fix this?

Build:
ASRock Pro3 z77
Intel i5-3570
MSi Radeon 7770 1gb
Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200rpm
Crucial (4gbx2) Ballistix
(What was) Windows 7

 

[C12Friedman]

Welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums,
Make sure I understand here, you're still able to get into BIOS but unable to load windows? Do your hard drive and (if applicable) optical drive show up in BIOS?

 

[sora1202]

Welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums,
Make sure I understand here, you're still able to get into BIOS but unable to load windows? Do your hard drive and (if applicable) optical drive show up in BIOS?

That's actually another problem that caused my frustration. Sometimes my drives show up in the (UEFI) BIOS, sometimes only the optical drive is detected, and once or twice, neither were detected. The optical drive works based on its LED indicator, and I can hear and feel the vibrations of the hard drive mechanically working, maybe the SATA cables or the SATA ports on the mobo are defective...

 

[C12Friedman]

That's along the lines I was thinking although the HDD spinning doesn't mean it's cache isn't bricked. I'm thinking the cables are an easy thing to check, the motherboard... not so easy
Do you have the latest BIOS version from ASRock on your motherboard?