Knowing it takes a long time to run a defrag, I set Defraggler to run before I went to bed last night. When I checked it this morning, Defraggler had frozen with 0% progress. All the buttons (Stop, etc) were greyed out. I Tried "Xinig out", which didn't work. Ctrl+alt+del didnt work either.
With the system completely frozen, I had no choice but to hard restart my computer with the reset button. Upon startup, I recieved a "Disk Error" when the BIOS was detecting HD arrays. The next BIOS page gave me a "non-system disk or disk error. please insert system disk and press any key."
So did Defraggler kill my drive? Before I try the long and painful process of reformatting the drive, thus permanently losing everything on that drive, do you have any suggestions on how to recover?
Here's my system specs:
Windows XP sp2.
System drive: 2 seagate 80gb drives Configured in RAID 0.
Processor: AMD Athlon XP xxxx
2 GB ram
Can't think of what else might be relevant here. Please help, I'm pretty frustrated at this point.
I don't profess to know exactly what has caused your problem, but it's possible your computers boot options may have been changed, hence the "please insert system disk" error.
Does your computer boot at all after you press a key?
Issue resolved. I wasn't able to mess with it yesterday morning, as I had to leave for work. But when I got home I tried Dennis's suggestion of looking into my BIOS settings.
I went into the bios settings to confirm my HDs were there and set to boot and nothing had changed. I exited without even saving and my machine booted up normally.
I have no idea what happened, since nothing had been changed in the BIOS and I didn't make any changes when I went into it. I'm just super-relieved I didn't have to reformat.