Hello,
I recently got an OCZ Octane 3 256GB for my laptop which already has a 500GB HDD in.
It installed fine and I put Win8 on it. I've had it running perfectly for a few weeks now but today Win8 suddenly froze up and after hard resetting I can't boot into Win8.
When it tries it ends up trying to "Launch Automatic Repair" (or something along those lines) and this always goes to BSOD with an error saying winload.exe is corrupted and can't continue.
I have tried running the Win8 installer from my USB to get into recovery but that hangs too.
I still have Win7 on a partition on my HDD (as it used to be my main OS) and when I boot into that, the SSD can be seen in Device Manager and Disk Management but as "RAW" and I cannot open it in My Computer.
I really need some files from my SSD so I know I can go to Disk Management and format it but I really don't want to lose this days worth of work (stupid me thinking backing up once a day would be enough argh...).
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can attempt to make Win7 see the SSD as a disk with data on? Or get it to boot Win8 again?
Thanks for your time.
P.S. The BIOS can still see the drive fine and I've tried changing the SATA settings from IDE to AHCI and back again to no avail.
EDIT:
I've managed to get my recovery USB booting and can use the command line. I have managed to try a chkdsk on it and it gets to about 60/70% on Stage 2, it starts deleting indexs (or something) and then errors out and then if I try chkdsk again or run diskpart to 'list volumes' it isn't in the list anymore...
Automatic repair isn't working either, it "diagnoses" then "attempts repairs" but this has been attempting to repair for an hour or two and it gets stuck in a restart/repair cycle.
I've got hope now but not sure what to do because it seems like I'm at a dead end again.
Thanks for reading and I hope you can help.
Blekk
I recently got an OCZ Octane 3 256GB for my laptop which already has a 500GB HDD in.
It installed fine and I put Win8 on it. I've had it running perfectly for a few weeks now but today Win8 suddenly froze up and after hard resetting I can't boot into Win8.
When it tries it ends up trying to "Launch Automatic Repair" (or something along those lines) and this always goes to BSOD with an error saying winload.exe is corrupted and can't continue.
I have tried running the Win8 installer from my USB to get into recovery but that hangs too.
I still have Win7 on a partition on my HDD (as it used to be my main OS) and when I boot into that, the SSD can be seen in Device Manager and Disk Management but as "RAW" and I cannot open it in My Computer.
I really need some files from my SSD so I know I can go to Disk Management and format it but I really don't want to lose this days worth of work (stupid me thinking backing up once a day would be enough argh...).
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can attempt to make Win7 see the SSD as a disk with data on? Or get it to boot Win8 again?
Thanks for your time.
P.S. The BIOS can still see the drive fine and I've tried changing the SATA settings from IDE to AHCI and back again to no avail.
EDIT:
I've managed to get my recovery USB booting and can use the command line. I have managed to try a chkdsk on it and it gets to about 60/70% on Stage 2, it starts deleting indexs (or something) and then errors out and then if I try chkdsk again or run diskpart to 'list volumes' it isn't in the list anymore...
Automatic repair isn't working either, it "diagnoses" then "attempts repairs" but this has been attempting to repair for an hour or two and it gets stuck in a restart/repair cycle.
I've got hope now but not sure what to do because it seems like I'm at a dead end again.
Thanks for reading and I hope you can help.
Blekk