No Hard Drives

Hi all,
I put my baby (PC) to sleep last night and when I woke her up this morning she said that her innards were missing.
No hard drives detected....I have two installed.
Well I went through all the prelimiaries that I could think of like holding the start/restart butonns in for a few shakes, unpluginning and replugging, going into bios etc. etc.

Next step was to lift the lid and disconnect the drives, believe it or not they were actually in there so my poor baby had not lost her goods she was just malfunctioning.

Hooked up one drive and got stuff as old as the hills..didn't want that so unhooked and hooked up the other...GREAT, so then I hooked up the other and WHAMO everything back to normal.

I then started to type this up and CRASH got a big blue screen or should that be SCREAM which said.
Kernel_Stack_inpage_error
Technical info
***STOP:0XC000000E,OX00000000,OX00022000.
So I went through the whole process(abreviated) outlined above.
Because of the initial problem I was unable to logon to the net and get help so had to take some drastic measures myself or take the box to the local PC shop who more than likely would just defrag and reload therefore losing all my data.
Posting this for 2 reasons.
1. Self help info for others game enough to give such a go.
2. An explanation of the Blue Screen info.

Roy66

 

Try clearing your CMOS.

Try dl'ing the drive integrity software from the vendor who makes your drives.

It's possible your mainboard is malfunctioning or your drive(s) are dying.

If you cannot tie it down to a hardware problem, I would wipe your primary drive (or at least it primary partition) and reload your OS. But honestly, it sounds much more hardware-related than software.

Gary

 

Just another update.

This baby is developing a habit of not wanting to wake up and WORK.
Innards missing again...no Hard Drives.
Wouldn't respond to anything I threw at it this time so resorted to removing and replacing the CMOS battery and that has got me up and running again.

In laymans terms could anyone please explain just what removing and replacing the battery actually does...it seems to me to reset default settings which would not work when I tried to reset default settings in the BIOS.

Furthermore, is there an explanation for the no show of the H.D's, especially as everything seemed to be OK before I shut down the PC for the night???

roy66