On two occasions over the past week my system has decided
that my drives no longer exist. I have now done 2 system
restores to solve the problem since that seems tobe the
only thing that would work. Does anyone know why this
happens?

And second, each time I do a system restore it consumes a
lot of my hard drive space. Is it advisable to delete
the "old compressed files"? Thanks...

Chris, take a look at this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];314060

You could also rt click on your drive icon in MyComputer then select
Properties>Disk Cleanup>More Options>System Restore-cleanup. That will free
up some space.


"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On two occasions over the past week my system has decided
> that my drives no longer exist. I have now done 2 system
> restores to solve the problem since that seems tobe the
> only thing that would work. Does anyone know why this
> happens?
>
> And second, each time I do a system restore it consumes a
> lot of my hard drive space. Is it advisable to delete
> the "old compressed files"? Thanks...