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Hard Drive Failure? or otherwise
I have a peculiar issue that happened with my laptop, while in the process of backing up it suddenly froze and i was forced to restart it. After restarting it i was greeted with a black screen and a message "Missing Operating System". A couple restarts later and now it's stuck as "Reboot and Select Proper device or insert boot media in selected boot device". I attempted to fix my computer using a system image iso on a USB External hard drive, but System repair cannot fix it, none of my existing system images work.
Strangely when i attempted to use the command prompt function, i could not find my OS drive, and when looking up the drive letter C:\, i was getting my storage drive which is normally D:\, and the D:\ Drive game a message "This device is not ready" The Bootrec.exe/ScanOs detects no windows version installed.
It seems the bios still recognizes the OS drive though(Intel 510 ssd).
I'm not sure if this is just some very peculiar windows issue created by terrible timing, or my SSD has died for a second time, but this time without any warning.
Took the drive out...tested it on another computer, the entire drive is *Unallocated*
Attempted to enable it as its *not initialized* but i get a Data Error Cyclic Redundancy.
Last edited by Len19; 15 Mar 2013 at 05:30.