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This morning I tried to turn on my PC and it came up with a black screen saying "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". I have checked and my boot priority is still my ssd with windows on and my pc is picking up both my drives fine, all the videos I've seen online to solve this are just people telling you to check that your boot priority is right which mine is. Please help!

 
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1 minute ago, tomfinnb said:

This morning I tried to turn on my PC and it came up with a black screen saying "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". I have checked and my boot priority is still my ssd with windows on and my pc is picking up both my drives fine, all the videos I've seen online to solve this are just people telling you to check that your boot priority is right which mine is. Please help!

 

Sounds like a sata cable might have come unplugged

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If you can see your SSD in your BIOS your windows boot files is probably messed up

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I tried to turn on my PC and it came up with a black screen saying "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". I have checked and my boot priority is still my ssd with windows on and my pc is picking up both my drives fine, all the videos I've seen online to solve this are just people telling you to check that your boot priority is right which mine is. I then tried to do a fresh install of windows onto my boot drive and if i do the automatic one it says to reboot my PC without the windows USB in and then update, which i obviously can't do as windows won't boot. When I try to do the custom windows install it says that none of my drives are compatible to have windows installed onto them. I am using a gigabyte motherboard and have a samsung 850 evo ssd.

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Dead drive maybe. 

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45 minutes ago, tomfinnb said:

I tried this and I'm still having the same issue

 

So you have access to bios? Try to flash the bios with the lastest one.

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12 hours ago, tomfinnb said:

Yeah I can still get into my bios, what do you mean by flash it?

Update the bios to the newest version or reinstall the current version.

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sound like drive failure or boot sector corruption............ SSD=swift silent death..... except for Samsung..........

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On 4 October 2016 at 3:27 PM, zanthros said:

sound like drive failure or boot sector corruption............ SSD=swift silent death..... except for Samsung..........

Uh oh I really hope not, when i try to install windows onto the drive it comes up with the error code 0x80300002. I don't know if this helps figure out what it is?

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