Is my SSD dead?

MacGowss · September 9, 2015

Hi,

Last night I left my desktop on and now I'm getting a message telling me to select proper boot drive. I checked the BIOS and my Samsung 840 SSD is still showing in the boot menu as the primary drive (which had windows 10 on it).

I looked trough some forums and came to a conclusion that the drive is dead, however, it is still showing in the BIOS which makes me think that it is instead corrupt.

I want to blame MS and Windows 10 for this. Ever since I upgraded from Windows 7 my PC has been acting up. First these forced updates made my PC crash. Then I went back to w7. After a few weeks I read some news that MS had fixed the crashes and so I decided to upgrade once again to w10. After upgrading it wasn't crashing any more, however, it was occasionally freezing for like a half a second especially when watching a movie or any type of media, streamed or from the drive.

1. Is my SSD dead or corrupt?

2. If it's dead can I recover data from it?

3. I don't have windows install DVD

Thanks

Bogica · September 9, 2015

1. Most likely not dead if it's showing up in the bios. Might be corrupt.

2. You could check it, just get a live cd or flash drive of Ubuntu or some other linux distro, boot up, check the SSD with the built in tools in the Ubuntu OS and recover the files.

3. After you do that, download a .iso of Windows, create a bootable flash drive with that .iso and boot from flash.