Thanks for all the advice. I can confirm i have fixed his computer. I will explain (for anyone in the future what happened and how we fixed it)
So as per the advice of the extremely helpful guys above ^ I looked for the CMS and how to reset it. I again could not locate the battery to save my life...and upon seeing the image above, i'm actually stunned at where they decided to fit the battery. Never seen anything like that before... and I have to say this computer is SO compact that I honestly have no idea how it does not over heat. Everything is almost within 1CM of each other including his 1080 graphics card which must pump out some good heat...
Moving on...the way I reset the CMS was by bridging two little pins together called 'JBAT 1' I believe. Then switching the computer on. This got the system to boot up into bios (hurray! life in the computer once again!). The excitement was short lived as I then ran into other problems... BIOs could not see the primary hard drive it could only see the storage HDD. It was fitted with 240GB SSD and a 3TB HDD. This confused me beyond words and initially i just thought well it must have also fried the SSD (hence why the system would not boot into windows and would only go into bios). Upon a very long day...many hours spent going over this, including wondering whether or not the SSD was even in the machien to begin with as I honestly could not locate it to save my life (like the battery...) I eventually after losign almost all hope.... and was about to format and install OS onto the 3TB hd instead... discovered something in the bios. I went through every option i could find in bios and discovered an option called something like:
"Intel Storage Management" or soemthing like this, I clicked onto that and discovered:
Raid0 - Status: Failed along with some mentions of the name of the SSD. WOOHOO! I may be onto something here....so the bios can see the SSD somewhere in the box, but where?! I eventually found it.... (like everything in box) it was placed in the most ridiculous place... at last. The SSD DOES exist...now, is it working or it fried?
The battle continues.....
Having never used or even researched much about raids, I begun looking into Raid0 status failed and what it actually meant. Correct me if im wrong, but it would seem as though Raid0 is essentially the worse kind of raid there is and in addition to this, the raid uses some kind of 'cache' process whereby if sudden power failure occurs it COULD potentionally screw the raid up. (not the SSD, but just the raid making it unreadable/bootable). After discovering this in my research, it made perfect sense as to why the system would not boot into Windows and claimed it could not find the OS.
It would seem as though raids pervent drives from being listed in the regular way hence why i coudlnt see in the bios and it would also seem as though the 'mapping' of the raid can be corrupt whilst the drive itself is actually fine.
At this point, I connected a third HDD to the system to install an OS onto temporarly to get access to the system and attempt to recover data from the SSD before formatting it. This was all successful and I recovered that I needed thankfully (despite the high amount of information on google searchess that said "data is gone - sorry" or something to that effect. I used a tool called EaseUS to recover the data. After that, I then used the backup disks that the roommate made when he first got the computer and it would seem as though the ONLY way to use this SSD when using their backup software is to have it re-create the RAID0 by splitting the SSD into two partitions and RAID'ing those.
My limited knowledge of raids would think this is absolutely pointless? Isn't the whole purpose of a raid is to A, boost speed by sharing the working load between multiple HDD and B, to backup/mirror the data over multiple HDD so if one fails, the data is still there on the other ? By doing RAID0 on a single SSD splitting it - surly defeats both purposes? but I must be missing something...for them to do this.
None-the-less, after using their software the system is now back online and everything is back the way it was before. I personally advised him that it would probably be better not to have this RAID0 setup as I feel that if the SSD is used as a regular drive, and just installed the OS onto that , if the power failure occurs again - less chance of this happening one would hope.
But this is ultimately the story and conclusion! I hope oneday it will benefit someone =)
