Leaving a few minutes to an hour is a serious lack of time for someone to answer. We have lives outside this forum (can someone say Riply's Believe it or Not?
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1. make sure our drive hasn't malfunctioned and is in working order.
2. sometimes Windows will loose track of drives (yeah weird but hey it's Windows)
3. Make sure your disk isn't faulty. Does it work in any other computer?
And for the record I have BF2142 and it runs awsome up to patch 1.10 (4 patches and still plenty of bugs