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Windows XP Professional loses contact with hard drives
LockedWindows XP Professional loses contact with the hard drives and hangs or freezes requiring a system restart by powering off the machine and restarting manually. Installed software will also have problems with locating the hard drives as well ie: media players, etc. They can not find the hard drives to retrieve the file(s) requested. I have found that by rebooting the machine daily (sometimes) I can avoid this condition. If I go to My Computer the hard drives (and everything else) is missing and the OS hangs. I am able to access the hard drive by using the Run command line but, a manual restart will eventually be required. I have reinstalled XP on more than one occasion but, to no avail. The problem continues. Apparently Microsoft is aware of the problem but, doesn’t offer any workable solutions. Has anyone any idea on how to repair this?