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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...