Drives Disappeared And System Not Longer Found
Sep 5, 2005Does anybody know why these have disappeared from my screen and can no longer be found in My Computer? How do I get them back?
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No Config/system - No Drives Found
Jul 8, 2010
The folk at this forum have helped me out massively before, so I again humbly seek you expertise. My XP machine tells me that a file in the config/system directory is missing or corrupt. So I put the XP disk in and it loaded up some things, only to tell me that it cant find any drives. I checked - the physical drives are there (a pair of Seagate 160Gb set up as mirrors in RAID - the RAID screen appears before the "config/system" error message) and I pulled the connectors apart and and put them together again.
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Oct 28, 20073 times in last 3 weeks. Likely Software or Hardware Problem or ??XP SP!+++/80G West.Digital HD/512 RAM/P4(C: Drive)/Intel MB 865GBFL/3.0Ghz.AVG 7.5 AV & 7.5 AS, BoClean, AAW SE 1.06, Spybot 1.5_17 Beta, CCleaner. Sea Monkey exclusive browsing.Cable Modem & D-Link Router. More system info in Profile.ALL up to date, shows clear on all scans incl. AVG rootkit & Blacklight.Defragged, cleaned, running cool (temp). No unusual noises from box. 3 years old & used extensively. Updated to 550 watt dual fan PS(1/2Yr).
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