- #Windows 10 boot menu kepps disaperring drivers#
- #Windows 10 boot menu kepps disaperring Pc#
- #Windows 10 boot menu kepps disaperring windows#
The BIOS screen is very poor on this model.
#Windows 10 boot menu kepps disaperring windows#
The Hitachi drive inside my notebook is detected as two separate disk drives (not partitions) in Windows (diskmgmt.msc). This problem occurs also on hybrid drives. On the image attached is the battery power cable depicted by the red arrow. I discovered, that disconnecting the battery worked just fine. I am on ultra thin Acer Aspire S3, where removing disk could be quite a challenge. Then I connected the battery again and turned on the computer. Disk and fan can move, as they are attempting to start. Great thank you for the link, it inspired me! I unplugged the power cord, removed the battery and tried to turn on the computer few times, to be sure that all remaining energy in the capacitors got discharged. EDIT - I did try setting the SSD to hot-swappable in the SATA section of BIOS, maybe this will prevent losing the drive? I'll let ya'll know. The only thing I can do is email Asus and Crucial and post on their forums until they fix it with a firmware or BIOS update. Apparently this happens with other brands as well, and I'm sure that most of the drives people return as failed are really just going through the same thing, and could have been easily fixed. I'm thinking that this problem is related to UEFI bugs, because it's like the partition table is corrupted when you shut down hard and dirty, but only for the SSD (or maybe the Windows boot drive, but never happened with HDD). After 2 or 3 reboots it starts recognizing it again, but I forgot to change the boot priority after the drive came back, but after a few more boots I finally remembered, and it booted okay. After reboot, SSD not recognized in BIOS. It's happened again, this time because the power suddenly shut off in my neighborhood. Any suggestions or similar anecdotes will be much appreciated.
#Windows 10 boot menu kepps disaperring drivers#
I've done all the tweaks for SSD boot drives, and I have the latest firmware, and all my drivers and Windows updates are fresh. 35 days later, the M4 exhibits the same symptoms. Everything I've read since backs up that assessment. When that Vertex 4 failed, I asked the salesman which brand and model was experiencing the least amount of returns, and he pointed at the Crucial M4's. I have a new system with all new parts, that all work great and are completely compatible with each other, which worked perfectly until 2 months in when I installed the first SSD. But now Windows had a problem locating the boot files, so I had to repair the boot sector with a Windows Repair Disc, and fix other problems like the 100 MB "System Reserved" partition that suddenly showed up in Windows Explorer after I restored a drive image.Īnyway, my question is, is anyone else having the disappearing drive problem, and how did you fix it? I'm getting tired of working on this machine every 2 weeks when my brand new SSD decides to exit cyberspace and seek a new life as a paperweight! I never had this problem with mechanical hard drives SSD's are great, but not worth the trouble if you can't buy one that stays connected. Swapped them back to the original ports, and still recognizing the drive. Swapped SATA ports, rebooted, and it recogcnized it. I'm thinking, here we go again (this Crucial M4 is a replacement for the OCZ Vertex 4 that died after 15 days). Went into Bios and the SSD boot drive was missing. I guess I killed it alright, because the missing boot manager message is all that would come up.
#Windows 10 boot menu kepps disaperring Pc#
I tried to shut down my PC last night, just to clear memory and because it had been running for 3 days straight, and it got hung on the "Shutting Down" screen for over 10 minutes, so I killed it with the power button.