I'm running Vista Home Premium...After ripping some cds, my E:/drive just
disappears...POOF! It only comes back after a system restore, (which is an
issue that I addressed in another question) & System Restore tells me that it
failed for an "Unspecified Error".
Also, certain programs just hang up for no reason, & web browsers move
sluggishly as well. I'm using Mozilla Firefox, & I also have Internet
Explorer(shipped with Vista).

"Bobo" wrote:>
> after a system restore and it comes back, run a checkdisk on it. in
> Computer, right click on the drive, choose properties, choose the Tools
> tab, click the Check Now button and allow it to be scheduled for next
> time you boot (if that's what it asks).
>
> Otherwise, while it's disappeared, do you see it in Disk Manager? Check
> this by right clicking on Computer, then choosing Manage, then in the
> box on the left click on Disk Management. See if your drive appears
> there, but not in Computer. If it does, I still recommend running
> checkdisk on it and making sure it is initialized. Right clicking on the
> disk brings up various options.
>

Thanks for your reply, Bobo. I actually solved the problem via this
suggestion from Rick.

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894730/en-us and follow the steps there
to remove the upper and lowerfilter entries in the registry.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP