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SSD drive has suddenly become unbootable
Running Win7(Pro) on a 3 or 4 years old PC with a 1 Tb mechanical hard drive and a 6-month old 250Gb Samsung EVO SSD.
The SSD has been excellent - until yesterday, when, immediately after after making a trivial change to config.sys, the system crashed. The SSD drive will not now boot. On attempted bootup, the 'Starting Windows' logo shows up, then the computer halts with a black screen and cursor.
Attempting to repair the SSD with the Win7 System CD Startup Repair didn't either detect or fix any errors.
I can get the PC up and running by booting from the 1Tb hard drive. Then the SSD and its contents appear to be OK - but of course this 'solution' does not give any of the SSD's speed advantages.
Easeus Partition manager only shows the "C: partition" on the SSD. There is no hidden boot sector. It shows the allocated drive is 209Gb and total disc space is 232Gb. Obviously the drive is not bootable because the hidden system sector has been erased.
I cannot get the Samsung software which came with the drive to do anything so am considering using Easeus partition manager to create a 10 or 15Gb bootable sector from the unallocated space on the drive.
Is this the right way forward or do you have any better suggestions please. I do have a fairly recent Easeus backup of the 'hidden sector' if it is of any use - but was afraid restoring it to the SSD as might cause more problems.
Many thanks for your time and suggestions
Phil