SSD Troubles

[SithAfrikaan]

Hey everyone!

Todays question is about why my SSD will no longer boot!
Except it does boot if I manually select it from the bootable devices in the BIOS, the boot order doesn't reflect the drives I have and if I disable the other drives and leave only my Samsung Evo (the one in Q here) I get a loop to BIOS because NO drives are detected at all.

So if I had to put maths to it, it detects the drive 1/5 boots.

I have so far:
Updated WINDOWS
Updated BIOS

FORMATTED,
INSTALLED WINDOWS

The problem persists, I have to select the drive (if it appears) in BIOS otherwise I get the Bluescreen boot issue with the 0x0000 blah blah code,
I have tried running repair from a win10 media USB but this just says cannot repair the device.

Chkdsk says no probs,
CrystalDiskMark says its all green.

Any ideas would be super appreciated!

The rig works like a dream as normal once I'm IN windows, but it makes reboots/power-ons a total schlep.

[Chaosphere]

Can you have a look on disk management and see where your Boot and system partitions are located? Pictures could help.

A screenshot of your boot options in bios would probably help too.

[SithAfrikaan]

Boot options are like you think they would be, if the drive is visible it defaults to position 4 with the M1 drive in first spot, even if I disable the other drives from appearing as boot options, all that nets me is a system that won't detect the SSD and loops into bios every reset.
As for partitions I will include a snip:

[suicidal_monkey]

Have you tried re-seating the drive (unplug and plug in again, possibly into a different slot)?
...almost sounds like a bad connection

[SithAfrikaan]

Thanks for the tip Suicidal, its sometimes the most simple of things right?
It turns out, the Sata cable wasn't "clicked" in, so I must have just been lucky up until now!
So far I've not encountered the same problem but if I do I'll be back to post about it
:roflmao:

[OldBloke]

Glad you got it sorted, Sithy :thumb:

I've always thought the design of the SATA connection to be rubbish. The 'click' you mention is only found on connectors that have the additional clip attached. Usually it's just push until it feels like it's fully in (Lib/Gal ... don't ... just don't).