Windows crash - Refresh - Hard drive locked, unlock hard drive

Hi everyone. I had this issue happen twice now. I got a blue screen of death during PC use and then when I reboot I get a blue screen saying \Windows\system32\winload.exe is missing.

The first time I was unable to work out how to unlock my SSD so done clean install losing all data.(Thankfully I had a backup on a server of important stuff) I have the Windows 8 DVD but it was unable to recover, reset or auto resolve. The problem seems my hard drive was locked. I believe the master boot record or something was corrupted during the crash and the drive is locked by windows. Hence I am unable to mount the disk unless I define it as a new volume which is essentially wiping it.

Here's what I done to unlock:

I booted from the win 8 DVD

Went into a command prompt and ran a few bootrec commands:

Bootrec /fixMBR

bootrec /fixBoot

bootrec /rebuildBCD

I then went back into the win 8 auto repair and it seemed to work.

I have no idea why windows 8 has now had 2 fatal crashes. My PC is ~6 years old and previously ran Vista with no issues. Bought a new SSD with windows 8 back in April and had it fail twice!!

Motherboard Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus

CPU: Intel Q6600

MSI Geforce 8800GT

Creative SoundBlaster XFi Extreme Fidelity

4 gig Corsair MSRX2 RAM

Sandisk 128Gb SSD

I'm wondering if it's because my PC is old and got some driver incompatibility with win 8. Hence just turned on windows driver verifier today and will leave running for a week to check. I've never overclocked my PC. Might bite the bullet and upgrade my PC fully to a core i7, new mobo etc but no idea if this will solve the issue. I am less than impressed with windows 8 because of this.

Hello, i tried doing this, as i am experiencing the same problem, but it seems like when i do the last bootrec command, it doesnt do it, it says ir Might take a while, but nothing after around 3 hours.. can someone tell me if there might be a problem,  or if its supposed to take this long. Thanks in advance :-)

Next time this happens pop in an Acronis 16 ISO Disc and back your data up as a .tib File on an external HDD. After you have successfully backed up your .tib file you can easily plug in your ext. HDD into a Windows 7 machine that has Acronis True Image 2014 and mount that .tib through the Acronis Apication, through the application not the disc you made and with the application you can give that .tib file a drive letter and extract all off our data however you'd like.

Finally i did it,, cant wait no more .The only way to fix this is to wipe the ssd with the ocz toolbox and reinstall windows . Lose all my data but thats the only way to do it, do yourself a favor and do a backup of your drive at least every month. 

Pls where can I get ocz toolbox ti do this. A download link will make it all joyful pls.