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Hard drive lose connection on widows 7 but works under XP
Hi,
I have a 2.5 inch SATA external hard drive (100GB) in a "NexStar CX" case it works fine under XP machines but lose connection on widows 7 computers!
If I try to use it on a computer that has windows 7 installed it loads but when I browse inside of it the hard drive it makes a clicking noise and just lose connection after about a second or 2 it is running again(Almost like the HDD was unpledged and plugged back in).
3.5-inch SATA and IDE External hard drives work fine on my windows 7(x64) machine, It’s just my 2.5-inch SATA that is giving problems.
The hard drive works fine on XP, right now I have it plugged into an XP machine and shared over the network and everything works fine but if I try to plug it into my windows 7 computer directly it just keeps loosing connection (Had the same problem on other W7 machines)
I have tried going to Power Options >> Advanced Settings and disabled “USB selective suspend settings”. This helped make the hard drive run longer before losing connection but the hard drive still randomly loses connection!
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.