Hello,

My wife's computer (which was built around Nov. of last year with all new parts) is having some issues. Upon booting up, it says "Detecting IDE drives..." for a good 20-30 seconds, usually it was instantaneous. It appears to find all the drives, but I don't know for sure since it doesn't say either way.

It won't boot windows, giving me the error: 0xc000000e - boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible

I'm assuming it can't read off of the drive where windows is supposed to be loading up from? She has a 500gb HDD and an 80gb SATA. Windows is installed and booted from the SSD.

In the BIOS settings, it detects both the HDD and the SSD (pretty sure it was called LS120 or something.) I don't know for sure, but would BIOS even detect the hardware if it wasn't working properly?

I've googled the problem for the last hour, but nobody seems to be having it in the same way. Before I go and reinstall windows and force her to lose everything, I wanted to make sure that there was nothing else I could do.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: Went into command prompt via the recovery tool on the windows 7 disk and went to the DISKPART thing. I did "select disk=0" and then "detail disk" and the only drive it is showing is C (the HDD). I suppose since it's not showing anything else, the SSD isn't being recognized anymore?

Solved: It was the SSD drive that went kaput. PC boots fine without the SSD