"ok so the old c drive is now; blank, formatted, just missing?" Nothing is blank, formatted, or missing. The 3 drives just switched around. "specs show that model can be as small as a 40GB capacity which is quite ancient)" This one is 500GB.
Processor: AMD FX-6300 six core 3.5GHz Hard drive 1: Seagate Barracuda ST3250820AS ATA (C Drive) Hard drive 2: Toshiba DT01ACA050 (partitioned into drives D and E), salvaged from previous computer and installed into this newer one. Video card: Radeon R7 200. Ram: 8GB DDR3 Windows...
This is on a six-core system, 8GB ram, win 8.1 64bit. Yesterday everything was fine. I went to shut down at the end of the day and selected 'update and shut down.' Then in the morning windows would not boot up. After some digging around it looks like the update moved my entire windows folder...