ack, help! SSD doesn't boot anymore

I have an Intel 520 SSD and my system no longer recognizes it after a hard windows crash. It happened once before, blue screen of death and all, but fit some reason yanking it out of the drive bay and putting it back in allowed me to boot. That doesn't work this time. I can see in the bios menu under SATA devices that it detects a drive, but it didn't say what manufacturer, or anything other than 6gb/s. First it started with nvidia drivers crashing my display, but recovering. Now, as you can see, i can't even get the computer to start up. Any ideas how to fix this? Is my drive toast?

For now I'm going to try installing win7 on the drive that stillworks.

I really hate typing on a phone :(

Do you have multiple drives on your system? When I get hard crashes sometimes my bios decides to change my boot order and ignore my OS drive altogether. After far too long trying to figure out why it was seeing my drive, but recovery couldn't find an OS, I checked the boot order and the bios had one of my other drives as first priority. Swapped it back and booted fine.

Well in the boot order it won't site anything but my Plextor drive. On the SATA menu is where i can see the other drive


Also:
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Is this a good site or is it just malware?

Edit: well this is just fucking fantastic. Now i can't get the windows dvd to do a clean install on remaining drive

After multiple restarts I'm finally getting windows 7 to install. However the first time it went through it failed... So in trying to install it again why is windows 7 install so slow?! Geez you would think with SSDs and a fast CPU it would take like 10 minutes

From the bios boot menu, you should have some option to run the SMART test on the hdd, or you may need to go to the manufacturers web site and download a bootabel cd/usb key that has some diagnostics for the HDD on it. I have seen messed up hard drives that were still attached to the system cause funky things to happen to drives that are fine. Like trying to install windows on another drive that is fine. The bootable OS environment is still trying to see and access the bad drive so it can load drivers and let you see it as an option for the install destination. Disconnect the problem drive and try installing again.

I'd make sure you don't have the power rail on your PSU overloaded. Unplus your CDROM/DVD and/or move some of the drives to another cable group and see if that resolves it.

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Originally Posted by Multibocks

After multiple restarts I'm finally getting windows 7 to install. However the first time it went through it failed... So in trying to install it again why is windows 7 install so slow?! Geez you would think with SSDs and a fast CPU it would take like 10 minutes

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That sounds almost exactly like my brother's issues he was having due to too many drives on the same power rail. Strange reboots, intermittent ability to install Win7, drives would usually detect but then mysteriously disappear from the OS, etc.

oh hmm how do I check to see what rail everything is on? Have my case cover off, but not sure what to check on the psu.

gf wasn't home today, I was going to get some mad WoW time and now :mad:

Look at the back of the PSU. Each "rail" is the string of plugs all connected to the same wire. Some PSUs have a plug-in bundle of connectors for each rail. Just make sure that you don't have more than two power hogs (hard drives, graphics cards, etc.) on the same string of connectors. Depending on your power supply, you might not have an option to move them.

FWIW, I use PC Power & Cooling's Turbo-Cool 1200 and has a massive 100A single rail system, and it's never had any issues. Expensive, but well worth the investment.

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Originally Posted by Multibocks

After multiple restarts I'm finally getting windows 7 to install. However the first time it went through it failed... So in trying to install it again why is windows 7 install so slow?! Geez you would think with SSDs and a fast CPU it would take like 10 minutes

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Win7 install should definitely take less than 10 minutes. That's not good that the install is failing on a different HD...in fact, it takes a lot for a win7 install to fail as it is.