Booting device not found - SSD visible in Bios but not in windows installer

[VH2000]

Your boot partition is corrupt as well.

So copy all (!) commands and paste it into command prompt.

Also the sfc commandline!

There should not be a reason to reinstall windows.

[Alf_It]

Ok clear thanks

one last question, once hopefully everything reinstated, I think it would be a good move to clean up everything, maybe format the full SSD and reinstall windows, to have something clean.

But in one of your previous messages you mentioned that even formatting using the windows installer wouldn't actually work.

Can you please explain me why? or is there another procedure I should follow to format the SSD and bring it back to its initial fabrication state?

[VH2000]

You always can run a clean installation, but try the other solution first. I just want to see if everything works as expected.

You run a clean install like this:

boot from USB

at the first setup page (contry&language)

press

Shift + F10

in command prompt type

diskpart

sel disk 0

clean

convert gpt

exit

exit

continue the setup

[Alf_It]

should it be disk 1 ?

as if I remember correctly from when I tried installation the disk 0 was appearing as the 1 Tb HDD

[VH2000]

disconnect the 1 TB disk first

[Alf_It]

Hi

I was going through the diskpart and I noticed that the SSD has 5 partitions, included 2 partitions that are named as "primary", is that normal?

see here below:

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 223 GB 0 B *

DISKPART> sel disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list par

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 260 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 261 MB
Partition 3 Primary 208 GB 277 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 980 MB 208 GB
Partition 5 Primary 14 GB 209 GB

[VH2000]

Go and everything is OK

[Alf_It]

Hi

I could run the procedure only now.

I run the commands as you told me, but when I reach the command:

bcdboot D:\Windows /l en-US /s B: /f UEFI

I get: Failure when attempting to copy boot files.

[VH2000]

Ok, your system files are damaged as well.

So try this first:

sfc /offbootdir=D:\ /offwindir=D:\windows /scannow

[Alf_It]

here is the result

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline
repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.