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    No boot sector after firmware update :(

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by vanrijnthewalrus, Aug 17, 2010.

  1. vanrijnthewalrus

    vanrijnthewalrus Newbie

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    I have a problem: Yesterday I updated my firmware for my Samsung SSD drive. I followed all the directions, putting the files onto a bootable USB drive, changing the BIOS to boot from the USB, and it was successful. Now, however, after it was installed, I turned off the computer, removed the USB stick, and went to reconfigure my BIOS to its original settings (AHCI back to IRRT, 'Diskette' at top of boot order, etc). I closed the BIOS configuration to start the computer, only to get "No boot sector on Internal HDD (IRRT)...No bootable devices."

    What do I do? I thought that booting from the USB was in order to not have to backup everything on my SSD drive. Do I have to reinstall Windows and all my stuff again?

    Thanks,
    Noob
     
    vanrijnthewalrus, Aug 17, 2010
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  2. Aerick

    Aerick Notebook Guru

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    Did you miss this part?
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    But yeah, you're going to have to reinstall from scratch.
     
    Aerick, Aug 17, 2010
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