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Usually either a faulty system board with a failing ide bus or scsi or sata bus depending on what kind of hard-drive you are using or a fault cable connecting the hard-drive or the hard-drive itself.

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Q: Why would a computer with 1 hard drive and windows xp at random think that it doesn't have a hard drive at boot up?
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