New
#1
Operating System not found
I was using my computer normally in the morning and went to sleep for a few hours. When i woke up and turned on my computer, there was an error saying:
Operating system not found, media check fail, check cable (something along those lines)
i had recently installed an ssd instead of my hdd, and moved my hdd to my dvd drive.
My laptop was working flawlessly till yesterday and i am sure i have not dropped or damaged my laptop as i hardly move it because its a tad bit heavy.
The thing is, when i loaded into my bios, the ssd and hdd are both recognized yet i cannot boot to my windows (on the ssd, i have 2 partitions, one windows 7, one ubunut) .
So i thought, maybe the cable for the ssd is really not connected or something along those lines, so i opened the back of my laptop and the cable was connected properly, but i removed the cable and reconnected it to make sure, but there was no progress. I finally used a ubuntu live usb and boot into ubuntu live and i can access the hdd but not the ssd.
Can anyone assist me with this? I am starting to think maybe theres a software error of some kind. If it is a hardware error, i can have the ssd replaces since its only a month old and has a year guarantee but i am out of the country and will be returning home in 10 days, so i would really like to solve the problem myself if i can as i need to use my laptop.
Thanks for reading
Edit: I just opened gparted on the live cd, and my ssd space is unallocated, is this problem software related? how should i proceed?
Last edited by corruptDNA; 20 Aug 2014 at 17:07.