Premiere CC Project no longer loading

Im running media off two external hard drives.
This morning I forgot to turn one of the drives on before I opened my Premiere project.
When the missing media alert showed up, I canceled and quit. Then turned on my missing drive.
Now when the project opens it freezes and says 887 files to load at the bottom. but nothing happens.
Other Projects open correctly.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Kyle

hi kylecam,
please check if you are able to import your old project in a new one. Also check if after effects can open the project. Please go to preferences & uncheck the option for writing xmps.
try the steps & see if that helps.
thanks,
avanish

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PREFACE:
OK, I am hoping that through this week-long Operating-System-and-Software-reinatalltion excerise of mine, I have revealed something that everyone -- whom have been cursing Adobe over -- can apply to their systems to resolve this jerky video problem within PremierePro CS5 (and quite possibly other versions, too).
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ROOT CAUSE:
While Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate was able to install certain default drivers during the Operating System installation (keeping in mind that this was done on an Intel Solid State Drive that I formatted using Quick Format) these default chipset drivers apparently weren't current and were ultimately the root cuase of the jerky video playback within PremierePro CS5.
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