SSD won't recognize after failed Windows 7 Install

[MajorChipHazard]

Hey guys, absolutely any input would be helpful.  

 

I was building a PC for a friend.  She opted for a large mechanical drive, so I got a 1 TB WD Black.  I tried installing Windows on the drive in her computer, but for whatever reason it wasn't allowing me to install it.

So I tried to put the drive in my PC and hook up my CD Drive to install windows through my computer. All of my drives were hooked up ( my 120 GB Samsung SSD, and my 2 TB WD Green )

 

Now, I managed to get the installation going her WD Green just fine.  But after about 5 minutes I realized that I was installing home premium instead of professional which is the key that I had.  

After many times throughout the day when I had to turn the computer off VIA the power switch to install some different RAM or to check if something was powering up, this became a habit.

 

So this is where I screwed up.  through force of habit, I just held the power switch down during the windows installation and the computer shut off.  My heart sunk when I did it because I realized just how bad I had screwed up.  However this is also kind of weird.  Now whenever I try to go into my personal PC, my boot priorities seem to skip my SSD and go straight to the next one.  

 

My PC isn't recognizing my SSD anymore and is unable to boot from it.  Whenever I set my boot order so that there is nothing else to boot from but my SSD, I get this error on a black screen:

 

"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device."

 

So basically after I cancelled the windows installation on the other drive that was hooked up to my system, my system will no longer boot.

So I thought perhaps I had just messed up my MBR. So I loaded up into my windows 8 disk to get into the command prompt to fix it.  I followed all the steps available in this guide :

 

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows

 

However, when it gets to the point where it is scanning windows installations after using the *Bootrec /RebuildBcd* command, it says that it has found 1 windows installation (my SSD).  It then asks me if I want to make it a primary partition or something like that, I say Y for yes.  Then it says that the specified drive could not be found.  So I'm out of ideas.

 

I'm out of ideas.  I've tried using the windows automatic repair, ran memory diagnostics, etc etc.  Don't know what to do other than format the drive and reinstall windows, but at this point I'm not sure ven that will work because the PC isn't recognizing the drive.  Since this happened I've plugged the SSD into my roomates computer which I'm making this post on, and I'm letting the drive power cycle a little bit in the hopes that might help.  Another weird thing is that the drive is recognized on his PC.  I can copy and transfer files to and from it just fine.  It just wont boot into the OS on his PC nor mine.

 

Does anybody have any other ideas that could possibly make this work?  I really don't want to have to wipe my drive 

 

Thanks a billion!

 

 

 

 

[burnttoastnice]

Try going into Windows Disk Manager (search -> diskmgmt.msc -> enter button) and see if the drive is spotted there. The problem with flash storage is that it's notoriously easy to get corrupted <_<

 

If Disk Manager doesn't help you should see if there's any manufacturer format tools available for your SSD, those are almost guaranteed to work.

 

Also, using software similar to Partition Wizard (3rd party program by Minitool) see if you can clone the SSD partition to a file so you can manually recover the data afterwards.