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    D drive vanished, came back with new BIOS.

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Nilst, Jun 30, 2011.

  1. Nilst

    Nilst Notebook Consultant

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    OK I have had this 18-1374ca for over a year. It came with two Seagate momentus 500GB 7200rpm drives.
    Its run with Windows 7 64bit since day 2....day 1 had Vista on it!
    I have not touched the BIOS ever. Its had F24 since I got it, circa 2009.

    Yesterday as I sat at the desktop I noticed everything on the D drive, programs, etc, their icons started to change ro generic ones, and programs like Utorrent stopped and began to give me 'Missing File' messages for TV shows that are on the D drive.
    I couldn't see the hard drive in Device Manager, Disk Management and when I did the Hard Drive Test at boot it ran the one for the C drive 100% ok, but the next thing it indicated was the next drive was inaccessible or something.

    Reboots didn't fix it. Reboot to 'Last Known Good Configuration' didn't do anything.

    After much frustration I downloaded and flashed the BIOS to the latest F34 and upon reboot everything came back!

    What happened? It was good for over a year. I made no changes yesterday before hand, and hadn't even installed anything for ages, and had not messed with any drivers. Windows update hadn't done anything.

    Its weird!
     
    Nilst, Jun 30, 2011
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