Very confused need some help

Jynmagic · 30 Jun 2015 at 08:03

Ok so I booted my pc yesterday and suddenly only one of my drives were showing in bios (I have 3) and windows wasnt booting up due to my ssd not being detected. Now I switched the sata cables around and voila all 3 drives detected, but now I got the boot mgr is missing error.

Now at this point I feared the worst and that my ssd had died, so I thought as a last resort let me boot from one of my storage drives, of course it wont boot windows isnt on it duh. I felt like an idiot but I decided to boot from my other storage drive just in case (doesnt have windows on it). Ummmm it booted and everything works fine wtf? I can go into my ssd and copy and write data.

Must have been a bug I reboot and boot from the ssd again...boot mgr is missing and again boot mgr is missing.

So Ive had my computer on for 24 hours since, played a few games for a couple hours no bsod.

What gives? Is my SSD acting up and what was up with switching the sata slots and my other two drives being detected again? Thank you for your help!

ED209 · 30 Jun 2015 at 08:08

when you installed windows on to your SSD was the other drives connected as well?

if so then the mgr maybe stored on another drive as when installing windows you should disconnect any other drives to stop this from happening.

disconnect the other two drives and leave your SSD connected, if it fails to boot then do a repair from the CD\DVD\USB stick that you have your windows media on and it should then fix the issue

the sata cable may have come loose and re seating this may have sorted the issue.

what SSD do you have? other option it could be a faulty sata cable\port

Jynmagic · 30 Jun 2015 at 08:14

ED209 said:
when you installed windows on to your SSD was the other drives connected as well?

if so then the mgr maybe stored on another drive as when installing windows you should disconnect any other drives to stop this from happening.

disconnect the other two drives and leave your SSD connected, if it fails to boot then do a repair from the CD\DVD\USB stick that you have your windows media on and it should then fix the issue

the sata cable may have come loose and re seating this may have sorted the issue.

what SSD do you have? other option it could be a faulty sata cable\port

I have an old intel 40gb ssd. And yes the drives were installed with windows. What confuses me is that Ive had this pc for 5 years and all of a sudden this problem shows up? Ive been booting from the ssd for ages and now windows only boots from one of my hard drives and lets me access windows which is on the ssd. Its so confusing. How could it be the sata cable or port if I can write and read data? Could it be that boot mgr (whatever the hell it is) decided to vanish on my ssd? But that doesnt explain why when I originally booted up only one of my drives were showing. AHHHH I hate not knowing lol.

It wont boot alone and I'll try the repair you suggested.

OracIe · 30 Jun 2015 at 08:49

As already mentioned, sounds like the boot manager is on one drive, the installation on another.

As for why its only just flagged up, have you done any updates to the BIOS or changed any BIOS settings?

Roverno · 30 Jun 2015 at 08:55

I solved the same issue recently. When you install windows. firstly make sure that you only have one drive isntalled, add the others once the windows install is complete. Secondly, when formatting the drive for the installation, delete all present partitions, and then with the only remaining partition highlighted, press *new*. This will add the partitions required for windows correctly. For some reason it manages to mess it up if you dont do this.

Hope that helps.