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Drive C: not found on reboot
Hi
My PC seems to be developing a problem whereby I'm working on it and something happens that makes me feel I need to reboot. This could be anything but NOT games - I don't play games at all (unless you call doing jigsaws playing a game). Since I am retired I just use my PC for doing leisure things only.
When I reboot, currently it mostly comes up OK but just lately it has started failing to find my OS C: drive SSD. I'm fairly certain this has nothing to do with the type or brand of SSD I am using which happens to be a Kingston 240GB (see also below re spare PC) which is set up for dual boot with Win7 and Win10. I've also done the obvious and checked the BIOS and no SSDs have been found including a Samsung 240GB SSD which contains just programs and data - NO OS. If I then switch off my PC and let the power supply settle for perhaps 15 seconds and then try again it runs up with no problem with both SSDs being found.
In fact I have another 'spare' PC upstairs that has the same problem albeit currently with a Sandisk 240GB SSD This is also setup as a dual boot disk with Win10 and Win7. Prior to this I had the same problem with a Sandisk 120GB (also dual boot) and a Kingston 60GB and a another Sandisk 64GB (one OS per SSD). Although I've never chased this since it is a 'spare' PC that is not often used. Now I seem to be getting the same problem on my main PC though, I feel it's about time to get something sorted.
Does anyone have any idea on what may be causing this as I'm at a complete loss at present? If anyone can help out it would be much appreciated.
I should add that I upgraded Win10 about four weeks ago to the Creators Edition although I doubt this is anything to do with it as my 'spare' PC has been doing this since the first version of Win10 back in 2015 and if I remember rightly it also did it with Win7 before that!
I hope I have described the problem adequately but if you have any questions please ask and I'll do my best to help.
Tracey