DESPERATELY NEED HELP

[DakeDravis]

Ok, so if I had known that buying an SSD and using it as my boot drive would be this much trouble, I would have NEVER done it. I built my PC, installed a GENUINE version of windows onto my SSD. Everything was running fine until just minutes ago. My computer says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected Boot device and press a key" when I turn my computer on. This is NOT the first time, in fact, this is the THIRD time. I have re-installed Windows 8.1 3 separate times, and yet I continue to get this issue. If anyone knows what the hell is going on, please post below, and if you would be willing to speak with me over Skype or Steam chat that would be wonderful. This has not been a very good night so far with all of these continuous issues.

[MegaDave91]

Is the OS drive boot prioritized?

[DakeDravis]

Is the OS drive boot prioritized?

Well, get this. Just now, literally after posting went into my bios. It does not have the option for me to boot prioritize my SSD, in fact it doesn't even show my SSD. So I what I did was make UEFI my top priority. What does this mean if my Samsung 850 EVO doesn't show up in my bios? (For the record, it did when I first installed windows and configured minimal settings in my bios)

[DakeDravis]

Is the OS drive boot prioritized?

*Also, making UEFI my top priority made my computer boot up again and back to normal, I'm just worried about the bios not recognizing my SSD

[MeDownYou]

Ok, so if I had known that buying an SSD and using it as my boot drive would be this much trouble, I would have NEVER done it. I built my PC, installed a GENUINE version of windows onto my SSD. Everything was running fine until just minutes ago. My computer says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected Boot device and press a key" when I turn my computer on. This is NOT the first time, in fact, this is the THIRD time. I have re-installed Windows 8.1 3 separate times, and yet I continue to get this issue. If anyone knows what the hell is going on, please post below, and if you would be willing to speak with me over Skype or Steam chat that would be wonderful. This has not been a very good night so far with all of these continuous issues.

do you have any other drives installed when you install the os? If so REMOVE them before you install again otherwise files sometimes get split between drives

[DakeDravis]

do you have any other drives installed when you install the os? If so REMOVE them before you install again otherwise files sometimes get split between drives

This was a fresh install. When I had to re-install I used Gparted to erase data on all drives.

[MeDownYou]

This was a fresh install. When I had to re-install I used Gparted to erase data on all drives.

Doesn't matter fresh or not if you had multiple drives hooked up sometimes it writes to both.

[DakeDravis]

Doesn't matter fresh or not if you had multiple drives hooked up sometimes it writes to both.

Oh sorry, didn't get what you meant in the last post. All drives except my SSD were unplugged during the Windows installation process.

[MeDownYou]

Oh sorry, didn't get what you meant in the last post. All drives except my SSD were unplugged during the Windows installation process.

Hmm... So let me get this straight.    Before when you have it on HDD you had no problems? You can do the installation on the ssd and boot into the OS, but when you turn your pc off it will not recognize the os on the drive?

 

If yes to both, I personally would RMA the SSD as I find that it is the only single factor that is causing problems (something must be wrong with no power storage on your SSD).