Drive hard internal does not appear in Device Manager or disk management, but IT IS there.

According to disk management and Device Manager, I don't have a C in any case, a HD partition at all. (I mean on an internal hard drive) So of course, I have a HD since im typing this now. Laughing out loud. the computer seems to know it's got a HD, because it starts very well, but he can't see it. In addition, I can see it in Explorer and see all the folders and files, but that's all. Everything works as usual. What can I do to fix this?

I have Windows Vista Home Premium, 232,88 GB Hitachi HD, NTFS, 4 GB of ram and sound on an HP laptop. I tried to restore windows, ran several antivirus scans and scans of mal-ware/spyware/ad-ware - all came up with nothing and all updates, still the problem persists.

Have you updated your BIOS? This could be a long shot, but have you tried to run the tool it Fix ?

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