Hello everyone

A few months ago I turned on my PC and found that it was being very erratic, locking up every other second. I restarted and it was fine, but I found my two optical drives in My Computer. I restarted again, and noticed that they did not show up in BIOS either...

When I shut down my computer and turned it back on the next morning, the same problem (locking up every other second). This time I opened Task Manager and noticed that there was a process, simply called "System" that kept opening every other second and stealing all my cpu cycles.

I restarted and lost my drives again.

The "System" process has not surfaced for a while now, but my optical drives remain lost. I have done various spyware and virus checks but nothing works.

Please help! I am running Win XP SP2 and have two IDE drives, one LG DVD RW and another CDRW.