Windows 7: Any know why sleep would cause disk not to come up?

Terrym · 30 Apr 2010

I have been using hibernate and switched to sleep but when I come out of sleep my G drive is gone. I can get it back on a reboot. Does not happen on hibernate. G and F drives are both 640 GB Western Digital. I have 4 drives and they are all WDC.

Anyone have any idea what would cause this?

manhunter2826 · 30 Apr 2010

I take it these are all external drives -- plug and play?

Bill2 · 30 Apr 2010

It appears large SATA drives take a while. If you are using the Windows 7 default sata drivers, try switching to those specific to your manufacturer.

Also, there is a hotfix from MS for similar issues.

You receive various Stop error messages in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 when you try to resume a computer that has a large SATA hard disk

Brink · 30 Apr 2010

Hello Terry,

In addition, I get this as well every once on a blue moon. I usually can get them back by putting the computer back to sleep and waking it up again. It can save you a bit of time instead of restarting the computer until a solution is found.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Terrym · 01 May 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by manhunter2826

I take it these are all external drives -- plug and play?

No, these are internal drives.

Terrym · 01 May 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

Hello Terry,

In addition, I get this as well every once on a blue moon. I usually can get them back by putting the computer back to sleep and waking it up again. It can save you a bit of time instead of restarting the computer until a solution is found.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn, I tried that but my G drive consistently does not show up unless I reboot. My G and F drives are exactly the same, 640 GB Western Digital.

Brink · 01 May 2010

Terry,

You might also check to make sure that you have the latest chipset and SATA driver versoins installed for your motherboad to see if that may help.

KrisM · 02 May 2010

If your BIOS has a setting in Advanced settings for Delay for HDD - set it to 3 seconds or 5...

Terrym · 02 May 2010

Thanks. I will try those ideas.

Terrym · 02 May 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

Terry,

You might also check to make sure that you have the latest chipset and SATA driver versoins installed for your motherboad to see if that may help.

That did it. Updated chip set and drivers and now it works fine. thanks for the info.

Terry

Windows 7: Any know why sleep would cause disk not to come up?

Any know why sleep would cause disk not to come up? problems?