Help?!

oldestgregg · 13 Mar 2015 at 22:50

Hoping someone here has a clue whats happening as I have never come across this before. I built an AMD piledriver (maybe but its amd intergrated anyways) pc with windows 7 on it for my Dad. Today he shows me this-
Turn on pc
black screen with loads of text and a 30 second countdown at the bottom
countdown ends
same again with another countdown and press any key
option to insert repair disk,press cmd and enter a line of code around 20 characters long.

Now I think its a corrupted windows or ssd failure as Im sure I saw something like chkdsk in the text. Was going to reinstall windows after I remove the ssd and format it but would like to know if anyone has any thoughts or have encountered anything similar?

ED209 · 14 Mar 2015 at 07:49

are you able to get in to windows in safe mode at all?

if you can get in to windows try running this in command prompt as a admin

sfc /scannow

should check all of windows files and repair if corrupt or tell you if it finds any and cant repair them.

oldestgregg · 14 Mar 2015 at 19:29

Cant get into windows at all bud. Only to the above steps and no further

ED209 · 14 Mar 2015 at 19:34

what SSD is it your having the issue with and how old is it?

can you connect it as a second drive to another PC to do a check disk on at all, is there anything on it you need?

have you tried replacing the sata cable\changing sata ports and re seating the power cable for the SSD?

oldestgregg · 14 Mar 2015 at 19:54

Im going to have a go tomorrow sticking it in mine. I think its a corsair ssd and its about 9 month old

ED209 · 15 Mar 2015 at 07:34

oldestgregg said:
Im going to have a go tomorrow sticking it in mine. I think its a corsair ssd and its about 9 month old

make sure achi is enabled on the sata ports, check the sata cable and power cable as well.

try and connect it to a PC and see if you can run check disk on it or see if the manufacture has any software to check the health of the drive

oldestgregg · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:01

Right...Its a sammy evo 240gb and Ive stuck it into the port on my corsair 650d to run checks on it. Chkdsk reports no bad sectors but says windows has made corrections to the file system. All data is fully accessible and I was able to remove photos and what not before the scan. Ive re-seated the sata cables and power cables so Im going to finish this coffee before heading back to my dads to plug it in and see what happens. Got the windows disk anyways just incase

ED209 · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:19

oldestgregg said:
Right...Its a sammy evo 240gb and Ive stuck it into the port on my corsair 650d to run checks on it. Chkdsk reports no bad sectors but says windows has made corrections to the file system. All data is fully accessible and I was able to remove photos and what not before the scan. Ive re-seated the sata cables and power cables so Im going to finish this coffee before heading back to my dads to plug it in and see what happens. Got the windows disk anyways just incase

at least you was able to get the data from it in case a OS re install was required, hope it works