Lenovo T60p BSOD / C: Drive Disappeared

Hello,
I'll try to be as specific and concise as possible and would appreciate any help I can get.
Problem: BSOD Error, C:/ Drive Disappeared, but D:/ Drive still present when I go to rescue and recovery.
Background:
Initially, I kept getting a fan error noise followed by the computer shutting down. I fixed this by opening the computer and using compressed air to clean the fan. I then put the computer back together. When I restarted for the first time, Windows started up beautifully and everything was fine in the world. Within a few minutes of starting up, I kept getting Windows messages that I should run CHKDSK to fix some errors on userjournal or something like that. Since I can repair errors without restarting the computer, I decided to restart. The initial boot up sequence went fine, but when windows started loading, it went straight to a BSOD.
-The BSOD error I get is: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0xC0000102, 0x00000000) The error also states that I should "Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation, and backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Solutions tried so far:
1) Tried to run windows from CD
- When I clicked "R" to repair it said that a hard drive could not be recognized. I'm not sure how this is possible if on Rescue & Recovery, I can see the contents of my D:/ Drive.
2) Ran HDD in Compatibility Mode
3) Change Boot order
4) Remove HDD and put it back in.
I also forgot to mention that when I click on System Information on Rescue & Recovery, under Hard disk (C Capacity and Free Space, it says Not Available. I sincerely hope someone can help me because there are certain docs on the C Drive that are very important to me.
Sincerely,
clutch

Ok, I think you either have two seperate minor problems, or one more serious problem.
1. fan error. Unless your fan was really clogged up with dust/debris, cleaning it shouldn't fix a fan error, you normally need a new fan, but they only cost about $12 for the fan itself.
2. harddrive. You may have a failing hdd. Recovering your data is another issues we can look at later, but for now you need to figure out if this is really your problem, or if it's more serious. I say this because a system board failure could cause both symptoms.
If you had another hdd and fan, you could find out really easily if that's the cause, but assuming you don't have these parts handy, another test you can do is boot your computer from a Linux LiveCD operating system. You can download on from ubuntu.com, burn the cd and boot from it using the option to not change anything on your computer. This won't touch your harddrive and if your computer is working, you should have no trouble booting from this disc. If you cannot, then you most likely have a serious problem
If it starts fine, you can then try to access your harddrive from linux and copy any data you want to salvage from it. If you cannot access it, I'd buy a new harddrive, install it, install windows (or other operating system), then install your old harddrive either in an ultrabay adapter, or usb adapter and run a good data recovery program on it. If you still cannot salvage your data, either consider it lost, or look into some professional data recovery solutions.
This is what I would do, but other members might have other suggestions.
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iTunes 7.0.2.16
CD Driver 2.0.6.1
CD Driver DLL 2.0.6.1
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.6.1),
Video Driver: S3 Graphics ProSavage 8A26 (Microsoft Corporation)\S3 Compatible Display Adapter
IDE\DiskMaxtor4D040H2_________________________DAH017K0, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomHPCD-Writer+_8100______________________1.0g___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
Some computers need an update to the ATA or IDE bus driver, or Intel chipset. If iTunes has problems recognizing CDs or hanging or crashing while importing or burning CDs, check the support site for the manufacturer of your computer or motherboard.
Current user is an administrator.
E: HP CD-Writer+ 8100, Rev 1.0g
Drive is empty.
Writing CD text is turned on in the preferences. If you're having problems burning CDs, try turning this preference off.
HP Pavilion 7935 Windows XP

Time machine disk drive disappears

I just bought a Seagate 2 TB external hdd to use as my Time Machine Backup drive. Time Machine formatted it properly and named it Time Machine Backups. Unfortunately, it sometimes just disappears from the desktop, which I don't notice until I try to run Time Machine. It doesn't appear in Disk Utility either. I have it conntected to a USB port on the computer. Restarting the computer doesn't help, but if I unplug and then reconnect the drive, it appears again, or at least it has so far. Any idea why this drive disappears?

Check that the data cable is securely inserted at both ends.
Try a different cable.
If you're connecting the drive through a hub, connect it directly to a built-in port on the Mac.
If you're connecting it directly, try a different port.
Disconnect all other devices on the bus, or as many as possible.
Test the drive with another Mac. Test another drive with this Mac.
If the drive is bus-powered, but has an AC adapter, connect the adapter.
Boot into Recovery and launch Disk Utility. Is the drive recognized?
Reset the System Management Controller
If the drive doesn't work under any of the above conditions, and if another drive does work with the same Mac, then the drive has failed. You may be able to salvage the mechanism by removing it from the enclosure and installing it in another one, or in a drive dock.

USB keys and external hard drives disappear after 30 seconds to 1 minute of being mounted.

I just got my 15' MacBook Pro refurbished (by Apple), and everything is working well except my USB ports. My USB keys appear for 30 seconds to as much as 2 minutes before disappearing from eveywhere, my desktop, finder and disk utility. I have a 1 TB WD passport for mac that also has the same problem, but can stay on the desktop and copy files for around 10 minutes. Then error -36 shows up, the hard drive disappears from the desktop and finder, but only appears in disk utility. It is powered as well, The light is currently flashing indicating it's receiving power as I am typing this. But still, no way i can copy anyhting onto it.
I have searched and searched for the solution to this problem, I have tried using apple script to find "invisible hard drives." and that doesn't work either.
On my windows partition in bootcamp, all usb keys work perfectly fine.
Is it because the USB ports are out of energy and dying? If so, should the refurbishment have covered that and replaced them? (Note: refurbishment included everything from my Keysboard to my battery to my Optical drive and cable optical drive flex)
Is there anything I can do to fix this problem on my own?
Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.

Hi wdmpfm,
Here is something from an earlier post on the -36 error that may help to identify the issue:
A -36 is a disc I/O error. You might have a corrupt file, or a corrupted drive. Try creating a new file and see if you still get the error. If you do, it might be wise to run a Disc Repair program to see if it can find any errors that it can fix.
And one from another thread:
You need to format your drive correctly. New drives come formatted for Windows, & then they seem to work — but not properly.
+Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility+
Choose one of the +Mac OS Extended+ formats.
Obviously first you will have to back-up all the data you have already put on the drive, because it will all be lost when you re-format.
Hope one of these may help!
Cheers,
GB

Internal Drives Disappeared- Help

G4/1.0 DP MDD with four drives filling the internal bays. The two in the upper bay, one with the OS, show up fine. The two in the lower bay, under the DVD drive, which were showing up fine after installing 10.4.7 about ten days ago have suddenly disappeared. They don't show up under disk utility or System Profiler either. Booting with Disk Warrior, one of the drives appears on the list and DW says it is shown on the desktop, but it's not. Repaired the directory, but still nothing. Finder prefs are to show all drives.
I repaired permissions many times, zapped Pram, replaced battery, disconected the drives, checked the jumpers and reseated the connections and all seems fine. About three times over the last year, using 10.3.8 - 10.4.4 - 10.4.7, these drives disappeared temporarily, but returned upon a restart. Now they seem to be gone for good, but there must be something else I can do to try and get these drives to show up/mount on the desktop. Any ideas?? My next step is to remove the drives and put them in cases to check them, but I have a feeling that the drives are OK and there's something else going on here. I think the bus that these drives are attached to are slower than the main bus, but I only use these drives for backup and fortunately most of the info is old and not important. Still, I'd like to solve this puzzle. BTW all other types of external drives, Firewire, SCSI, USB are all working fine and I disconnected everything peripheral from the CPU to troubleshoot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
MacScott
G4/1.0 DP MDD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I had the exact same issue and did nearly all of what
you did, which are the typical troubleshooting
procedures.
This worked for me: replace the PATA cable with a
fresh one that is NOT a cable select IDE cable. The
cable select IDE has a little sliver cut from a
segment of the ribbon that makes the driver CS no
matter what the jumper setting.
I have no idea why this worked but it did. I have
not had a problem since.
Thanks, but I'm a little confused. So a new cable for each drive or are there doubles? Is this a universal cable Mac/pc? Maybe the cable that came with the drive (that I probably threw away)? Do you know the link of a supplier? Would any Apple store have these??
Knowing why this worked would relieve a little anxiety. Do these cables go bad just sitting in the cpu?
Anyway I googled PATA and I'm still not sure if I'd know the difference between a cable select and a non CS. I'll continue my research.
Thanks again!
Hmmm, swapping the drives. Maybe I'll try this before I swap the cables.
Thanks,
G4/1.0 DP MDD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

My second internal hard drive disappeared

My second internal hard drive disappeared a couple of days ago taking many gigs of iTunes with it. It does not appear on the desktop, finder or anywhere else. When I click on a song in iTunes I get "The song “Cowell: Set Of Five - 4” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" When I try "locate," well it shows me the Main Disk. Not helpful. I've read lots of posts about vanishing drives and crashing drives on Leopard (I run Snow and was about to go to Lion). Did my drive die or did it go into the witness protection program? Irony is that I bought a 2 TB external drive last week to back up the iTunes drive and procrastinated. Suggestions? Experiences?
JCEspinosa

Is it listed in Disk Utility?

Internal & external hard drives disappeared in Finder

It happened yesterday on my G5 running 10.4.6. I have 2 hard drives inside my G5 and one external hard drive connected with firewire 800. The second hard drive and the external hard drive disappeared in Finder. But the one that has the system on it is fine. They did show up in Disk Utility. But it said they are both "not mounted".
When I tried to repair them in disk utility, it said:
"Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error"
Does anyone know how to fix it? I have lots of stuff in those hard drives.
Thanks
Ti Powerbook G4 1Ghz, PowerMac G5 Dual-Core 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Sounds like you have a major problem that Disk Utility cannot fix. This has happened before to other users. I suggest you get a copy of DiskWarrior and that will probably fix it. You can read about/buy it here:
Alsoft DiskWarrior
Mulder

I'm trying to burn my audiobooks on CDs. Got through three books just fine, then my CD/DVD drive "disappeared." I rebooted and got it back, but iTunes says, even after I un- and re-installed it, that it doesn't have the registries to burn CDs.

I'm trying to burn my audiobooks on CDs. Got through three books just fine, then my CD/DVD drive "disappeared." I rebooted and got it back, but iTunes says, even after I un- and re-installed it, that it doesn't have the registries to burn CDs. How can I retrieve this capability? My audiobooks are from Audible.

I'd start with the following document, with one modification. At step 12 after typing GEARAspiWDM press the Enter/Return key once prior to clicking OK. (Pressing Return adds a carriage return in the field and is important.)
iTunes for Windows: "Registry settings" warning when opening iTunes

Disk drive disappears

I've got a Powermac G4 DP 800 that the disk drive works fine, but when I attach a hard drive to the ATA ribbon, neither drive shows up,not in Disk Utility, not even in System Profiler. Unhook the hard drive, again disk drive works fine. Tried a different hard drive, same thing happens. Changed locations on the ribbon, same thing happens. The hard drives came out of an iMac G5 that went down,so I was just sticking my hard drives in the G4 for some more storage. Even if both hard drives were bad, why would the disk drive disappear even in Disk Profiler? Looks like the computer would still see the disk drive.

The problem now is the HDs are SATA with no master slave jumper settings. I can have a 160gb hd, a80gb hd, or a disk drive. I've got an open spot for a card. I'll get a card and ribbon and I'll see how that works. Neither the WD 160 nor the Seagate 80 have any jumper settings for master/slave and I've got them on SATA/IDE adapters to attach to the ribbons. I'll let you know if it helps.
It would help to have the specifics of your setup since there's things beyond standards specifications here (this is generally helpful when asking any hardware question, especially if you have made modifications to the computer). I have a dual 800 G4 tower and it doesn't take SATA drives, so I am guessing that you have an SATA PCI card. Also, I'm surprised they made SATA drives as small as 80GB and 160GB. Can you provide specific model numbers for these drives?

HT203242 I've tried all of the suggested solutions, but I still can't get my cd drive recognised. If I delete the driver and rebot, the cd drive appears, but as soon as the driver automatically installs, the driver disappears into the Q: drive

I've tried all of the suggested solutions, but I still can't get my cd drive recognised on my laptop. If I delete the driver and reboot, the cd drive appears, but as soon as the driver automatically installs, the driver disappears into the Q: drive, which is not accessible and neither is the CD drive

I had the same or similar problem after installin iTunes 11 on my Acer Laptop with Vista. The new iTunes ran but I
completely lost access to my CdRom/DVD drive. Error Code 19 was displayed in Windows Device Manager. Found out
this is more widespread of a problem than expected. After trying several forum recommended fixes, the Only thing that gave me back my CdRom drive was doing a Windows Restore to a date prior to iTunes 11 install. I got my drive back but it also restored me to the prior 10.0.7.21 vers of iTunes which no longer worked due to missing files. iTunes help
recommended a Reinstall. I am reluctant to do that for several reason. That's where I am at for now until I find out if there are any other risks for using iTunes 11 vs. Registry Errors vs. Losing access to my CdRom drive. Brad

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