WinXP can't see 2nd HD after Scan

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Help! After I did my first scan using Avast windows XP doesn’t see my Second HD.

I walked away from the scan since i knew it was gonna take awhile, and I come back after an hour the system rebooted. I tried to restart again and the BIOS startup took FOREVER trying to find all my drives (C and D HDs, E DVD-ROM and F CD-RW).

My system is a:
PIII 550Mhz
256 100Mhz SDRAM
Windows XP Pro
C: 20GB
D: 15 GB (My Pagefile is located here, and the system is SLOW now).
E: DVD-ROM
F: CD-RW
G: External USB Zip 250 Drive

THe system is about 4 years old and was upgraded (clean) from Windows 98 SE. I have never had any problems with my system before (not even a BSoD).

Please if you need more info please ask.

EDIT Update:
I do have a second computer and a shared folder on my second drived cannot be accessed by my second computer.

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  1. Send me the newest file in the \windows\minidump folder
  2. do a disk check of all hard discs, including surface scan.

I don’t see any other reason for this to happen besides a hardware problem.

Thanks
Vlk

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I unfortunatly don’t seem to have a minidump folder.

I was also planing on doing a surface scan of all my disks on both my computers (I do it every first of the month).

What struck me was that avast (v4 I believe) rebooted the computer. I recently replaced the C drive HD because it failed, but this 2nd drive is only a year old. Both I believe are Wester-Digital.

I will perform a surface scan on the C drive (since I can’t get it to see the 2nd drive) once everything is cleared on the avast end (since it was the only program that I had running at the time). I want to elemlinat any and all software (or even BIOS) issues before I call up the local computer store for a possible replacement.

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when was the last time you updated your BIOS? if it doesnot see the 2nd HDD then mabye you should update it.

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I will make a note that Avast has been having problems scanning both my computers and tending to make them act funny after a scan. Such as after rebooting, the system try icons all (or mostly) disapear. Incuding ones like the sound volume and m LAN connection.

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There is no update. Sorry. And even if there was, I would be not be fast to do so considering this was a Win98SE system.

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There is no minidump folder? Strange…

avast did not reboot the PC. It most likely had a BSOD (‘blue screen of death’) and WinXP is is set up to reboot immediately by default…

You can check Control Panel → System → Advanced → Startup and Recovery Settings → System Failure group and see the minidump path… (%SYSTEMROOT% is replaced by the actual path to the Windows folder)

Vlk

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There is no update. Sorry. And even if there was, I would be not be fast to do so considering this was a Win98SE system.
Ok. That was just my 2 cents ;)