Emac will not recognize drives/disks

I have an emac. It will not load up properly. I have tried restarting with the recovery disk, but when the apple start up screen starts a message appears that tells me I must restart my computer. I restart by pressing the C key, but get the same result. I then start normally (which takes about 15 minutes), and the desktop screen appears normal....except the disk utility program does not recognize any hard drive, nor will the cd rom drive be recognized.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Try resetting the pram. Do this by holding down command/option/p/r simultaneously. Then restart the machine, and keep holding these 4 keys down until you hear 2 or 3 start up chimes. Then release them, and see if the problems go away.
If you can successfully get it started up and can open disk utility, repair permissions on your drive.

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