Hi
Sorry - by firmware - I meant driver. I used the driver updater. Which wasn't able to update most of the drivers it found, but did a few.
Unfortunately using the "scan of hardware changes" didn't result in anything. After talking to a few people - the running theory is the registry cleaner might've messed something up where the PC can't read the harddrives. I've tried importing my saved .reg backup file but I just get an error with that too.
My harddrives are appearing in my BIOs, so its something in the OS that's wonky. I'm trying to do a OS clean install now - hoping that fixes it. But this is pretty alarming that this happened. I won't trust using CClearner again.