MSI BIOS - Does "Hard Disk" mean Windows boot manager or something else?

[britechguy]

I have a client who sent the following screenshot:


I am not familiar with "Hard Disk" being used as the designation for Windows, per se, and every time I have to deal with MSI BIOS I have to reacquaint myself with how it works.

The computer won't boot. It goes straight into BIOS. I am suspecting a dead SSD, but am not certain. What says the cohort about the meaning of the above as far as boot order and Windows goes? Also, about the possibility of a dead SSD?

 

[frase]

Might be a corrupted Boot Sector, even if USB was selected as 1 it would still roll onto the Hard Drive Boot sector and continue OS Boot; as long as no bootable usb/dvd was connected of course.

In my experience it might be best to use a USB Bootable drive to see if there is a Windows Directory on the actual Hard Drive.
If there is, well it points to a boot sector issue or failure of the SSD. Though check on the drive in question to verify it has not disconnected and is firm into the slot.

As you stated it could be a dead ssd, only real way to know is to remove the SSD and test.

 

[lan101]

I swear it's always a dead ssd these days lol. Any time I even think it is...it always is at least with me lol. It sucks how much the prices have went up...wish I would have stocked up more...shoulda coulda woulda.

So many computers now are gonna be throw away because they won't be worth fixing. It's already been that way to some degree but this will certainly accelerate it I feel like.

I feel like I'm going to have to start sending clients screen shots of the price of parts so that they believe that I'm not trying to rip them off lol.

I'd say the general public majority has no idea how much this stuff has jumped up in price in the last few months especially.