Hey here's some more info about it,
I know it's plugged in properly but I'm not sure how to 'enable' my SSD because I didn't know of any such function. And Yeah, the change that I did to inadvertently 'kill' my SSD (figuratively) was to switch the boot order of the two drives (my hard drive and SSD).
However:
I know that my SSD still works because I can use it on my desktop. And (as of today) I decided to just take my hard drive out of the laptop and then create an installation of windows 7 separately on the SSD so that a bootloader would be created on the SSD -- and thus making it a bootable drive. This has worked and given me access to my SSD once again.
The problem is, when I plug my hard drive in again, no matter the boot order (even though both are considered bootable) the BIOS once again shuts down my SSD.
Since you mention that this probably has 'nothing to do with the windows boot up sequence or bcd', is there anything you suspect that could be thwarting my SSD in combination with my Hard drive? One more thing, I also updated my BIOS so hopefully that has cleared its memory (if it had any) of my SSD failing, not sure it did though.
I told you it was a little boggling! I hope you're still with me haha. Thanks very much man.
PS I'm also sorry I couldn't get back to you until now, the site was down for a good portion of the morning I think. (Windows 7 release date anyone? xD)