Frets
December 7th 03, 09:30 AM
I am getting strange issues with the hard drive that I
installed. I added a 40 gig Maxtor drive. It has been
formatted and is NTFS. Whenever the computer goes into
Stand-by mode, I can hear the drives wind down (which is
of course expected). However, when I "wake" the system and
go to File Explorer, I notice that the additional drive
(which used to appear) has now disappeared. This is also
the case with "My Computer." The system did not detect
this drive upon waking up. It seems that restarting or
manually invoking Device Manager's New Hardware
Detection temporarily resolves the problem. But what I
have opted to do is disable the Stand-by mode altogether.
It's not what I prefer, but it is necessary for the time
being. The hard drive was installed using the standard 80-
pin ATA cable from the drive to the motherboard. Windows XP
recognizes this drive as the Disk 0 (Status:
healthy/Active) and the 160 gig drive that came with the
system as Disk 1 (Status: Healthy/System). Since the one
that came with the system is of the Serial type, I could
not chain them. Different cables. I have performed
diagnostics with PC-Doctor against this drive (when the
system of course detects it), and it has not detected any
issues with it whatsoever. Please advise...
installed. I added a 40 gig Maxtor drive. It has been
formatted and is NTFS. Whenever the computer goes into
Stand-by mode, I can hear the drives wind down (which is
of course expected). However, when I "wake" the system and
go to File Explorer, I notice that the additional drive
(which used to appear) has now disappeared. This is also
the case with "My Computer." The system did not detect
this drive upon waking up. It seems that restarting or
manually invoking Device Manager's New Hardware
Detection temporarily resolves the problem. But what I
have opted to do is disable the Stand-by mode altogether.
It's not what I prefer, but it is necessary for the time
being. The hard drive was installed using the standard 80-
pin ATA cable from the drive to the motherboard. Windows XP
recognizes this drive as the Disk 0 (Status:
healthy/Active) and the 160 gig drive that came with the
system as Disk 1 (Status: Healthy/System). Since the one
that came with the system is of the Serial type, I could
not chain them. Different cables. I have performed
diagnostics with PC-Doctor against this drive (when the
system of course detects it), and it has not detected any
issues with it whatsoever. Please advise...