Peripherals only work if connected at start up and HD icon is a folder

I noticed last week that my HD icon had turned into a folder icon. Audio disks and external HD also pop up as folders. Peripherals work only if plugged @ start up. One day I had no built in audio option and desktop folders were scattered everywhere. Ran DU in target disk mode with another machine.
DU said:
Invalid directory item count
it should be 44 instead of 43
the volume %@ needs to be repaired
Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair.
I did a repair and now when I run DU it says that there are no problems but peripherals still only work if they are plugged in @ start up and HD icon is still a folder.

That doesn't sound too good! Maybe you would need a better disk utility such as DiskWarrior?
One work around when disks are not mounting is putting the computer to sleep, and usually when it wakes up, your disk is there! Doesn't fix the flaw though...

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