Notebook not booting from SSD

nj4ck · September 5, 2014

Hey guys, I just got my new Laptop today, its a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E145. Along with the notebook I had bought a 128GB SanDisk SSD, which I immediately replaced the hard drive with. I installed Windows and everything was fine, until I had installed all the drivers and it was time to restart the laptop. It posted, then gave me the blinking "_" for about 10 seconds, followed by a menu asking me to select a drive to boot from. The SSD was listed, so I selected it and hit enter, which only caused the menu to pop up again instantly.

I opened the laptop, removed the SSD, installed it into my main rig and everything seemed to be fine, the SSD was recognized and I was able to access the data on it.

I put it back into the laptop and it booted normally, I used it for about 20 minutes and then decided to restart again, just to check if the problem really had solved itself. Well, it hadn't.

Now its doing the same thing again. I can access the BIOS and the SSD is recognized there, however the system seems unable to boot from it (at least most of the time).

I'm not sure what's going on here, none of the parts seem to be completely dead, since they do work every once in a while.

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this, that would be greatly appreciated.