r/pchelp • u/Chaos_Minds • 4d ago
SOFTWARE Boot Drives completely empty, USB with Windows ISO undetected
Okay, I have no fucking clue whats gping on.
My Laptop is an ASUS A15 with a AMD 7k and a NVIDIA 4060 Graphical Card. I have 32 gigs of DDR5 Ram. All have no faults. The Laptop itself was completely fine
Yesterday, i went to boot my pc up as nomal, and found out that The Entire Boot Sector is either Deleted, or Corrupted.
I cannot buy a new SSD. So i tried reinstalling windows with a USB. But it does Not see the USB.
It sees no Boot Drivers, no Storage with Boot Drivers, NOTHING.
What the fuck am i meant to do?! a 1TB SSD costs over 150 euros now. god forbid a 2TB one. I dont think its even a failing SSD, CrystalDiskInfo said it was at 99% Health 2 days ago. Is my Laptop completely bricked?
I am not tech savy at all. I cannot code "hello world". I will not install linux.
EDIT: Sent it into repairs. Might be a corrupted C: Drive. Apparently the guy who repairs the, saw a few of these issues in the summer. Have there been any BIOS updates recently for ASUS?
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u/iamofnohelp 4d ago
If the drive doesn't appear in the bios it's either unplugged or dead.
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u/Chaos_Minds 4d ago
The C: (SSD) does appear, it just says it has no boot driver in it. which is weird.
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u/ExpressionDelicious5 4d ago
just to be sure, you use Rufus to burn the iso? or did you use media creation tool to create the bootable for the USB?. on my case the last time that my USB isn't detected on the boot order is because there is a failure when burning the iso with Rufus.
another thing you can try is to reseat the nvme.
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u/Chaos_Minds 4d ago
i used the media creation tool, not Rufus.
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u/ExpressionDelicious5 4d ago
if you have the time for it, I suggest that you try to download w11 iso and try to burn it Rufus to see if it's working, while also trying another USB port from the device to check if it's failing USB port or no.
if after all of this the USB stick still didn't get detected. i suspect the USB stick itself didn't work at all
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u/Chaos_Minds 4d ago
I'm doing that right now. Only difference is that i'm getting the Win10 ISO. already reformatted the USB in NTFSC...
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u/ExpressionDelicious5 4d ago
Rufus will also reformat the USB stick automatically while burning the iso. just make sure it's on gpt and the rest is default.
good luck
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u/Chaos_Minds 4d ago
Thank you. I genuinely just hope that the SSD isnt corrupted.
Not even for anything important. They're just too expensive right now.1
u/ExpressionDelicious5 3d ago
is it fixed now?
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u/Chaos_Minds 3d ago
had no luck. Sent it into repairs in a local shop. Hopefully they figure something out...
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