Hard Drive Hiding

[Dawg]

The Hard Drive in my Thinkpad R61i has gone missing. I boot, get a windows startup screen then a BSD. Always the same in all safe modes too.

If I boot of an old Winternals cd there is no HD there, and booting from Hirens is the same: no HD.
However booting from The Ultimate Boot Disk shows a 120Gb HD, and the DRive Fitness Test gives it 0x00, which is all clear I think.
Suggestions please?

The data is backed up externally, and I have discs for all the software, if that makes any difference to a solution.

[Harryc]

'BSD'... not much to go on there. What exactly does the BSD say?

[Dawg]

Sorry. BSD reads:

"A problem as been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you’ve seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:
check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly Installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive
to make sure It Is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then
restart your computer.
Technical information:
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*** STOP : 0x0000007B (OxBA4CF524 , OxC0000034 , Ox00000000, Ox00000000)"

No new HD or any installations/software. Can't use CHKDSK as BSD.

[Harryc]

Copied from a Google search, translated from Chineese -

Stop error number: 0x0000007B caption: INACCESSIBLE-BOOT-DEVICE usually reasons: Initialize I / O system (usually refers to the boot device or file system) failed. Workaround: boot sector virus usually causes this to stop error. Use the latest version of the anti-virus software to check whether there exists a computer virus. If it finds a virus, you must implement the necessary steps to get rid of the virus from the computer, please refer to the anti-virus software documentation for how to implement these steps. Remove any newly installed hardware (RAM, adapters, modems, etc.). check the MIcrosoft Hardware Compatibility List to ensure that all hardware and drivers are compatible with Windows. If you are using proper SCSI adapter, available from hardware vendors In addition to the latest WINDOWS driver, disable the sync negotiation SCSI devices, check whether the end of the SCSI chain, and check these devices SCSI ID, if you can not determine how to implement these steps can be, refer to the hardware device's documentation. If you are using is the IDE devices, board IDE port is defined as the only main port. check the IDE device master / slave / unique setting. relieved addition to all but the IDE hard disk device. If you are unable to confirm how the implementation of these do not find them, refer to the hardware documentation. If the computer has been formatted using the NTFS file system can restart the computer, and then partition the system to run Chkdsk / f / r command. If you can not start the system due to an error, then use the command console, and Run Chkdsk / r command. to run Chkdsk / f command to determine the file system is damaged. If Windows can not run Chkdsk command, will move to another drive on a computer running Windows, and then from that computer, run the Chkdsk command on the drive.

Note: As it pertains to a Thinkpad, I'd say the bottom line is to run a virus scanner from a boot disk. If it doesn't find a virus, run chkdsk /r from the windows command console.

[Dawg]

OK Thanks Harry C
I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure if I got all that, but I'll run AVG and Malwarebytes from a boot disk and see what it throws up.

[RealBlackStuff]

You should run something more powerful than Malwarebytes.
Try this: http://www.superantispyware.com/