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Repeated boot sector loss on SSD Windows moved to F: partition?
First time ive posted on this forum, but Ive gotten losts of help from it in the past. Hopefully you guys can help me or give me some ideas on a problem im having.
Ive had this computer for about a year at this point but starting 3 months ago I have had to reinstall my operating system 3 times do to the SSD drive failing to boot. This just happened for the 3rd time last night and Im out of ideas and to keep my sanity I need to find the root of the problem before I put another OS on the drive.
On start up the first 2 times the computer said it needed to repair the start up and just ran startup repair, but just hung and never did anything but said searching for problems. This time im getting a "Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible error".
I ran the windows disk and selected repair.
The windows installation is now on F: where it was on c:
My system was windows partition was c:
RAID 0 Raptor drives where D:
Media 320GB Seagate drive on E:
DVD F: or G: I cant really remember now.
The drives are all visable in bios and I am booting from the SSD Drive
In windows repair I tried dong sysrestore, but it says I have no restore points which I know I had some.
Start up repair says my boot sector is corrupted I have run it multiple times.
I have tried to run bootrec it was all the commands where successful, but when I run the /scanos command it says no windows partitions found.
Another thing that is scary is when I try to get to the f: partition in the command console it says "the semaphore timeout period has expired."
I tried running a chkdsk command on the F: where it says windows is and it says it cant run the command because the partition is RAW.
I dont know what the deal is I even had mushkin DMA me a new SSD 3 weeks ago and the same problem cropped up again last night. I dont know if its bad cables or a bad raid controller on the Mobo or what, but 3 times losing the OS in 3 months is getting me frustrated. Any advice would be great Ive probably spent 30 or so hours trying to recover my OS over the last 3 months. If you need anymore info just ask. Thanks in advance.