SSD disappeared.

[Jeroen1322]

Hi guys!

 

I have a 64 GB SSD for my OS but i when i booted my PC i got this message

 

"BOOTMGR is missing"  

 

so i went in to the BIOS and saw that my SSD had 'disappeared'.

 

I tried a different SATA cable on a different SATA input on my MoBo and still it didn't work!

 

 

HELP!

[Sarcasm]

Dead SSD

[Jeroen1322]

Dead SSD

It wasn't even a month old!! 

[tom564]

Do you have another system to test it on? 

[Jeroen1322]

Do you have another system to test it on? 

No i don't

[Jeroen1322]

What did you use it for ¬¬?

Just my OS

[tom564]

Any other sata drives still working?

[Jeroen1322]

Any other sata drives still working?

Jup i have another 1TB HDD and that one works just fine with that SATA cable.

[SMURG]

Is it by any chance an OCZ drive?

Try rebooting a few times. OCZ drives are renowned for occasionally not showing up in the BIOS sometimes. I have a 480GB Vertex 2 and it's a pain in the ass for it. I reckon about 20-30% of the time, it doesn't show up in Windows when I boot. fortunately the only thing I keep on there are Steam games so it's a simple matter of rebooting once or twice until the drive shows up again since Steam plays nice with external storage anyway ^^

[Jeroen1322]

Dafuq guys!! I works again!! I don't know why but it works again! 

[chromeboy42]

Is it by any chance an OCZ drive?

Try rebooting a few times. OCZ drives are renowned for occasionally not showing up in the BIOS sometimes. I have a 480GB Vertex 2 and it's a pain in the ass for it. I reckon about 20-30% of the time, it doesn't show up in Windows when I boot. fortunately the only thing I keep on there are Steam games so it's a simple matter of rebooting once or twice until the drive shows up again since Steam plays nice with external storage anyway ^^

480gb ssd for steam games?!?! What is your library filled with? I have maybe 20 games max that I actually keep downloaded and none on a ssd.

[SMURG]

Dafuq guys!! I works again!! I don't know why but it works again! 

Did you reboot? If so I expect you've got a shy controller like I do lol.

 

480gb ssd for steam games?!?! What is your library filled with? I have maybe 20 games max that I actually keep downloaded and none on a ssd.

I have like, 1TB of Steam games. The 480GB drive is just for those I feel warrant faster speeds. I have a 120GB drive which has my OS and the odd "loads ridiculously slowly" game on it - e.g. Kerbal Space Program, and then I have another 2 x 500GB HDDs which have the games which don't need faster speeds on them. Any media goes on my file server, along with backup copies of all the games.

I live in a country where it's impossible to get decent internet. Even if you do get a decent connection the ISP introduces caps and throttles (at home we have a connection which is barely capable of 1mbps, and at university we have a gigabit line throttled to 0.25mbps, it's amazing). For this reason I literally cannot afford to uninstall and reinstall games. That's why I keep backups - if a drive fails I don't want to wait the week and a half it would take to redownload each game.