Lost previews

Lightroom 3.4 is not save the preview in the catalog images.

My photo archives are stored on multiple external hard drives, each image carefully keyworded. When I need to find my archives photos, Egret, say, choose from the list of keywords and all the glimpses of my provided egrets.  I look through and choose the one I want.  Then I click on the Photo > show in Explorer and Lightroom told me what hard drive to the plug-in to find the image full size.  This system works well for me for years, but recently I had to replace my motherboard and reinstall the software.  Since then, Lightroom has not spared the previews in the catalog (I guess) because when I followed the steps above, all I see is a gray image white instead of preview images except when a hard drive is already connected.  I need for previews to be stored in the catalog.

How can I get Lightroom to save previews, so I can see them without necessarily having the images full screen available?

Under Edit > catalog settings > file management, I have the Preview size Standard the value 1024 px, the quality of the preview put down and automatically reject the Never value 1:1 previews.  It's the only place I can find that may be responsible for maintaining the previews.

This problem became a huge key in my workflow.  Any help for this problem would be appreciated.

Your preview cache have been eliminated in your re - install. You will need to mount each hard drive in turn and rebuild your previews. In the library Module: Menu Library-online-> rendering previews...

Ja.

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