I recently purchased a HDD and it works fine except if I go into sleep mode. Every time my computers comes out of sleep mode the HDD disappears completely. I have literally tried EVERYTHING to fix this, including:
- Changing SATA mode to IDE, AHCI, and RAID
- Changing sleep mode (ACPI mode) from Auto to S3
- Switching the SATA port on the motherboard
- Restoring BIOS to default settings
- Installing Microsoft update KB977178 (Apparently its already installed with SP1)
- Updating BIOS firmware
- Updating Intel Chipset drivers (Seems to be up to date already)
- Enabling hibernate mode
- Changing advanced power settings (Setting turn off hard disk after to 0 (never), 20, and 140 minutes)
- Disabling write caching on the hard drive
- And probably many more things during my 9 hour attempt at fixing this today
I also tried phoning my HDD's manufacturer (Hitachi) as well and they couldnt provide an answer. The hard drive seems to be OK and not showing any bad sectors. The only way the HDD will be detected is if I restart Windows completely.
Here are my system specs:
- Windows 7 (x64) SP1
- ASUS P6T Motherboard
- Seagate SATA 320GB Hard Drive (Primary)
- Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 SATA3 2TB (Secondary / The one thats not being detected)
Please let me know if you have any other ideas.