Solved Win 7 will not boot

[dsscottage]

Before, I get too wild and crazy, I'd like to ask for some advice/confirmation.

We had a power outage/surge during a thunderstorm and our Win 7 Ultimate computer will not boot.
-The computer goes through the POST and then all we see is a flashing cursor on a black screen.
-It will not boot into safe mode either.
-When I look that the BIOS, the SSD is not recognized.
-I attempted a Windows repair with the Win DVD but was informed that the SSD was not recognized.

Fortunately, I recently upgraded from the HDD to the SSD and the old HDD was left installed but disconnected. I returned the old HDD to the boot drive and moved the SSD to a secondary position. The computer will boot to the old HDD and I can read the data (including Windows) on the SSD as a secondary drive. I went into Disk Management and the SSD (as a secondary drive) is shown as a healthy NTFS drive. Therefore, I suspect that the Master Boot Record is corrupted. I've searched "fix MBR" and found a number of links to programs that are advertised to automatically fix the MBR.

Before I download and try one of these, let me ask...
1. Am I correct in my assumption that I probably have a corrupted MBR?
2. Is downloading and running one of the MBR fix programs the best strategy or is there some other simpler or safer way to do this?

 

[Ranger4]

This Forum tutorial could help you fix your problem. Of course you will need to have the SSD as the only boot option by disconnecting your HDD.

Startup Repair - Windows 7 Help Forums

Do keep in mind that you may have to run Start Up Repair 3 times.

 

[dsscottage]

This Forum tutorial could help you fix your problem. Of course you will need to have the SSD as the only boot option by disconnecting your HDD.

Startup Repair - Windows 7 Help Forums

Do keep in mind that you may have to run Start Up Repair 3 times.

I did run Start Up repair and it failed to fix the problem. It indicated that it failed to find the SSD. However, I only ran it once. I'll try again and run it at least 3 times and post back with the results.

 

[dsscottage]

Resolved

Sometimes I think that computers are haunted buy ghosts!

I restored the SSD to the boot position and started the process of doing another Startup Repair. Surprise! Surprise! The computer booted normally on the SSD!

I hate it when I can't explain why something happened and I have only two unlikely possibilities:
1. The original Startup Repair worked even though it reported failure.
2. Somehow during the power failure/surge, the SSD SATA cable because slightly unseated and by moving the cable it was re-seated.

Anyway, all is well and my wife is happy to have her computer back. When my wife is happy, I'm happy!

Thank-you for your help.

 

[Ranger4]

You are welcome & glad to hear you have the problem fixed. Your diagnosis of the possible causes is most likely the case & a badly seated cable is probably the guilty one.