Running Windows 10 Home v.22H2 on an 11th-gen i7, using the Western Digital SN730 SDBPNTY-512G SSD that came with the prebuilt computer (which has otherwise been working smoothly since I got it last March). I first got the boot device error on Wednesday morning—went into BIOS, everything looked fin…

Update: this morning, computer booted normally again? I am now thoroughly confused, but will update again if/when the boot device error comes back.

More updates: starting about a month and a half ago, this problem started to reoccur with increasing frequency; apparently some files got corrupted along the way, and I had to reinstall Windows from a USB. From there, problem largely solved for the past two weeks, when I got the boot device error ag…

Boot Device Not Found, but SSD recognized?

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Anachron January 13, 2023, 7:50am 2

@Matt_Hartley that is something like I’ve experrienced here. Please take a look once you’re back!

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Boot Device Not Found, but SSD recognized?

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