#Legion Slim 5 16AHPS bios not detecting windows boot

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hexed trout
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**Model:** Legion Slim 5 16AHPS, amd ryzen 7 8845hs with RTX 4070 

**Describe the issue**: Vast majority of times I attempt (although it worked a couple) to power on, it doesn't detect my internal ssd's boot partition, and doesn't list it in the BIOS, meaning I cant boot to it.

**What have you tried already?:** Power draining, checking things like crystaldiskinfo which said 99 percent health. Checked disc with sfc and dism and it reported back saying stuff was normal. Ended up reinstalling windows from USB and this morning it booted up fine but then it crashed and no longer does.


**When did it start producing the issue**: Sunday night, although I had crashes earlier, but I'm not sure if that's related and not technically what I'm most worried about right now.

**Did you install new drivers or software?**: No, it just randomly didn't boot Sunday evening, been a little bit since I've last manually updated drivers usually I just let windows update do it's thing

**Can you provide images/videos to show us the issue:**  I can take a photo of the boot list showing only efi pxe network when previously today when it did work I checked and it listed windows boot manager; I'm not very knowledgeable about the specifics of what is needed so please let me know and ill send it if I can. (Thanks again, I appreciate any help or input)
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Legion Slim 5 16AHPS bios not detecting windows boot

vale flame
hexed trout
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Thanks, I'll take a look.

hexed trout
# vale flame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HabGEnV-b5U

I went through what I could, I got to cmd prompt and was able to do fixmbr, but fix boot was denied. When I followed his instructions to fix that though running bootsec/nt60 SYS, however it said that the system partition was not found.

My two current thoughts are either it really is an issue with the ssd (or possibly its connection?), or because I got to advanced options using an external USB; since I'm not quite sure how to get to the advanced boot options from the regular boot menu.

vale flame
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you are supposed to go to advanced option through an USB

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looks like windows fucked ur ssd up

hexed trout
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on the plus side id rather it be an SSD issue than say motherboard or something

vale flame
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ssds are as costly as a motherboard replacement now so there's no difference

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😹

hexed trout
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Frick!

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oh well lmao

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Well, it's less work to reinstall

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So that's something

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Time to temporarily install windows on an external SSD heck yeah

hexed trout
# vale flame looks like windows fucked ur ssd up

Interestingly it managed to boot to Windows again and then I went through and successfully did everything in the video; is there any way of knowing if it fixed anything? besides ig just waiting lol

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...I jinxed it 😭

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Alright off to order a new SSD

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...I've been needing new storage anyways so I suppose if it's not actually an SSD issue it's not the end of the world

vast surge
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@hexed trout whats the model of SSD that was not getting detected ?

hexed trout
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And (idk if this was a bad idea) since I put the new one in the same slot as the old one and it's working great now, it does lend me more thinking it is the ssd

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Or maybe it was a driver issue , who knows

vale flame
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There was a windows update back in august that killed many ssds

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Even my wd black was affected by it

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Side effects of 30% AI code in windows

hexed trout
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Could be

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I still find it weird that like very occasionally it WOULD successfully boot until the next time it restarted

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time to use it as a second SSD and see if it still causes issues maybe a bad idea

vale flame
hexed trout
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Just to see what happens

vale flame
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I've tried that already bruh

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That update fries the SSD NAND controller

hexed trout
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because basically im wondering if i can still like, read files from it

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and just can't boot from it