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Might be a unique hard drive problem
I read about the other hard drive issues about them not being detected, and my problem is different. My 1TB (where I keep all my games etc) shows up on restart as my F drive (yes, it does have an assigned letter). However, at random times, the drive will just disappear and all the shortcuts into that drive will be invalid. The drive doesn't show up on the add hardware search, the device manager, nothing at all. However, when I restart, the drive is back and works fine.
Both drives are SATA, run off the same strand from my PSU (different connectors of course), and worked without a hitch when I had the same setup with Vista.
For what it's worth, when I switched to 7, I wiped and repartitioned my C drive and left the F drive (the one in question) the way it was.