My DAW had a bad D: drive (as reported by BIOS and Spinrite). I had WD ship me an identical replacement under warranty. I tried to replace it and couldn't so took it to a local shop yesterday afternoon. When I went to pick it up that evening they told me they had to reinstall Windows 7 Ultimate (thereby wiping my C: drive) because the system wasn't recognizing D: under my originally installed OS. I was pretty steamed but paid and took it home.

It worked okay for a while. I reset several environment variables because C: is only a 60 Gb SSD. I turned off hibernation and set PAGEFILE.SYS and TEMP to D:. This saved 20 Gb of valuable space. Note that I had done this on the original system. (Incidentally, I tried to reinstall my original copy of Windows but couldn't because the system didn't recognize my mouse or keyboard during the install process.)

When I rebooted this evening the system had "lost" D: again. It doesn't even show up in the BIOS.

You will understand that I'm pretty unhappy right now. Being unable to work or play guitar because of my broken finger I had hoped to spend the time learning BIAB 2012.5 (which I haven't even installed yet) and laying down beds. Instead I'm trying to install basic system drivers and fighting with a system that has apparently become unstable. I'm hoping that someone will be logged on who can give some effective pointers.

I've been in the BIOS and don't see anywhere that I can switch HD settings. I'm completely out of my depth and don't know whether this is hardware, software, or a combination.

Thanks in advance,

Richard

Last edited by Ryszard; 12/24/12 05:23 PM.
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