second hard drive randomly goes missing?

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oukanna

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Heya, I have searched around the internet to try and solve my problem but have had no luck, hopefully someone here can help me. :)

I run a decent pc windows vista ultimate x64.
Also i have 2x 250gb Hard drives 1IDE and 1 Sata i believe.

Every now and then (usually when i leave it running on its own for a couple of hours)
my second hard drive just simply disappears from my computer, i cant seem to access it until i reboot my pc. It gets quite annoying because it does this sometimes when im working in Maya or photoshop so restarting is a pain. I am not sure why it does this; has anyone had the same problem??
 

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I think you need to edit your power settings,

Control panel>classic view>power options>change plan settings>change advanced power settings expand hard disk and set turn off harddisk after policy to 10000 or more.

Post back the results :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Wipro
    Motherboard
    Intel dq35j0
    Memory
    8 Gb
    Graphics card(s)
    inter express chipset
    Sound Card
    Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Wipro
    Screen Resolution
    1024*768
    Hard Drives
    500 gb
    Mouse
    Dell
    Keyboard
    DELL
    Internet Speed
    100 mbps(office lan)
Thankyou :) I have gone into the settings and changed the time to 1000 :D it was set at 20minutes....i had no idea Hard drives switched off after some time lol maybe this will help :) *fingers crossed*
 

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oukanna said:
Thankyou :) I have gone into the settings and changed the time to 1000 :D it was set at 20minutes....i had no idea Hard drives switched off after some time lol maybe this will help :) *fingers crossed*
Click to expand...

good luck :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Wipro
    Motherboard
    Intel dq35j0
    Memory
    8 Gb
    Graphics card(s)
    inter express chipset
    Sound Card
    Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Wipro
    Screen Resolution
    1024*768
    Hard Drives
    500 gb
    Mouse
    Dell
    Keyboard
    DELL
    Internet Speed
    100 mbps(office lan)
delphin said:
I think you need to edit your power settings,

Control panel>classic view>power options>change plan settings>change advanced power settings expand hard disk and set turn off harddisk after policy to 10000 or more.

Post back the results :)
Click to expand...

YES! Thank you this helps very much, I already my thouht my 500gb hard drive is gone :confused:
I registered only to say thank you lol :D
 

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System One

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