Can't detect SSD

[iversxn_]

Hello guys, hope you are having a great day unlike me. 

 

So yesterday night I was playing some R6S but suddenly there was a power outage and unfortunately my ups wasn't plugged in. My PC had Shutdown.

 

After the power returned I tried to boot my PC back. It got stuck on the Asrock Splash screen with no loading animation. My keyboard seemed unresponsive but after tapping Del for a while it took me to my bios. There i could only find my HDD but there was no sign of my SSD which was my boot drive. Everything else was recognised. 

 

So then i got a MBR Error 1 & 2. So I shut down my PC and went ahead to reset my CMOS battery. Waited 10 mins and rebooted to meet the same problem. I swapped my SATA and power onto my SSD from my HDD which also didn't work and that also stopped me from accessing bios. 

 

So is my SSD dead? Or is there a work around. If i have to buy a new SSD it would mean quite a while to save up. 

Any suggestions would help out. Thanks. 

 

[lightning_po]

A slow work-around in the meantime might be a linux distro on a USB 3.0 Flash drive.

It's not ideal but it's something. You can use it for videos and browsing reddit or whatever.

 

Or get Hiren's Boot CD/USB and run that (free, useful, no bs)

You can also get a better picture about whether or not your drive is fried.

 

If you're lucky, the MBR got corrupted and you can fix it with like hiren's boot disk and the command prompt: chkdsk /f /r

get that here : https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

Edited April 1, 2019 by lightning_po
forgot about hiren's boot cd

[iversxn_]

11 minutes ago, lightning_po said:

A slow work-around in the meantime might be a linux distro on a USB 3.0 Flash drive.

It's not ideal but it's something. You can use it for videos and browsing reddit or whatever.

 

Or get Hiren's Boot CD/USB and run that (free, useful, no bs)

You can also get a better picture about whether or not your drive is fried.

 

If you're lucky, the MBR got corrupted and you can fix it with like hiren's boot disk and the command prompt: chkdsk /f /r

get that here : https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

Thanks would try that out, right now as my windows drive "might" be dead i cant even access safe mode. 

 

I'll give your method a try thanks again, appreciate the help. 

[lightning_po]

No problem, hope that it works out for you. Drives can be goofy and fix themselves magically sometimes. I was trying to put a PCI sound card into a PCI-e slot via some cheap chinese adapter and it required some power and the only available power cord ran off my HDD power cable. I thought I fried a HDD, but a few reboots later it got picked back up and I'm still using it. Hopefully yours isn't borked.

[iversxn_]

1 minute ago, lightning_po said:

No problem, hope that it works out for you. Drives can be goofy and fix themselves magically sometimes. I was trying to put a PCI sound card into a PCI-e slot via some cheap chinese adapter and it required some power and the only available power cord ran off my HDD power cable. I thought I fried a HDD, but a few reboots later it got picked back up and I'm still using it. Hopefully yours isn't borked.

Damn man, hope mine picks up soon, I'm just sad that my 500GB SSD might be dead. On the plus side might upgrade to a NV.me drive. But that means a lot more to save up. F.