Windows 7: Hard drive disappears

So I made the mistake of upgrading my OS and installing an extra hard drive at the same time. Now I like the new windows, went from XP MCE 2005 to Windows 7 so I'm not complaining about that. Its just now I'm not sure if its the new OS or the new HD thats the problem.

The hard drive is a new Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7k drive and it says windows 7 compatible. It will just dissapear from the system. I dont see any system events or errors or anything like that. I guess the only real consistancey is that its after its been asleep for a few hours.

If it only goes to sleep for a little while it seems to always be there when it wakes up. If I reboot the drive comes back and I can use it.



The system is like 4 almost 5 years old but I'm assuming that has nothing to do with it. Windows runs perfectly and is faster than when the system had XP. Did I just get a bunk drive or is it somehow related to windows? I guess it could it even be my powersupply...

Hello fubar,

Welcome to 7 Forums.

Sounds related to this. http://www.sevenforums.com/news/4895...tml#post457488

Gary

Unfortunately they didn't release the hotfix for 64bit systems. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction tho. It had something to do with the default SATA driver.

I installed the intel matrix storage manager driver last night and when I woke the computer up this morning the extra drive was still there so it looks like it fixed the problem.


The link below is what I installed if anyone else is having the same problem.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager

Glad you got it sorted out and thanks for posting your fix.

Gary