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Drive not found/ Not waking up from sleep/ Please help
I put my computer to sleep yesterday and it would not wake up. The screen would just stay black no matter what I did. I could hear the computer working but it just wouldn't wake up. When I shut it down manually and restarted I got a black screen with a message similar to "No drives were found. Press DEL to enter setup", then I get a screen with my motherboard logo P6T. I tried restarting several times and tried changing boot sequence in BIOS and finally Windows 7 started and I was back exactly where I left off with all the windows I had previously open.
But there is still a problem remaining. First, Acronis True Image could not finish the backup, giving me errors. Second, I have accidentally pressed the sleep button and almost the same thing happened. PC would not wake up and when I restarted it, I saw the same message about drives not found flashing at the top of my screen, then windows resuming message and it did start this time although it took ~ 5 min.
Then I finally managed to make an Acronis backup without errors.
What should I do to fix this? Is there a problem with my hard drive? Should I run chkdsk? But I'm afraid to lose data. I am afraid to turn my PC off now. LOL. But I have to go on vacation Wednesday and need to turn it off..
P.S. I had a similar issue once before, but at that time no messages about drive not found. SO I thought it was just a fluke. I guess not...
Please help! Thanks!