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    XPS 15 9550 NO BOOTABLE DEVICES with sata SSD

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by IntelVEVO, May 1, 2017.

  1. IntelVEVO

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    I recently reinstalled windows on my XPS 15 to a 2.5 inch SATA SSD and it worked fine for a short while. Until it started giving me BSOD Critical_process_died and after the automatic restart showing 'no bootable devices' randomly. Usually I am able to get it to boot again by restarting a couple more times but this error has become more pronounced and is incredibly fustrating.
    I doubt it is a bad SSD as it had worked flawlessly in my Desktop

    I have had a lot of previous problems with storage on this laptop which I have been able to forgive because of what a beautiful machine it is when it works but I am quickly losing patience.

    Any help would be appreciated
     
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    What SSD is it ?
     
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    Hi again
    It is the Crucial mx300 750gb
     
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    Tough one as the normal fix is the SSD NVMe driver but that doesn't apply here. Have you tried changing modes? ACHI to Raid or the other way around?
     
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    When I switch to raid the drive shows in the bios uefi but still won't boot
     
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    Can you manually boot to it with F12 to bring up the BIOS menu?
    If you can try and create a new boot path pointing to \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI

    If you can boot to it but it BSODs before it gets to windows you will need to boot to safe mode back in AHCI, then reboot and make the BIOS change then it should boot to windows, if it does you can reboot again out of safe mode and it should work?
     
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    When I try to boot to that file it gives me the error
     

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    I get the feeling windows may be done for :(
     
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    Again? Damn well thanks for the help. One more thing I cannot get the laptop to boot off a windows USB it just hangs at spinning dots forever
     
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    Try and build the ISO with Rufus the same as in my guide (click my sig) using your ISO?
     
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    Do you have any idea what the root cause of this problem could be whether it's hardware or driver related ,because I really want to get this sorted once and for all and something tells me reinstalling windows again won't do the trick.
     
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    Nope but despite your claims the drive is fine, simply put the drive "was" fine until you put it in so look at how the problem started and take it from there.