second hard drive randomly goes missing?

[oukanna]

Heya, I have searched around the internet to try and solve my problem but have had no luck, hopefully someone here can help me.

I run a decent pc windows vista ultimate x64.
Also i have 2x 250gb Hard drives 1IDE and 1 Sata i believe.

Every now and then (usually when i leave it running on its own for a couple of hours)
my second hard drive just simply disappears from my computer, i cant seem to access it until i reboot my pc. It gets quite annoying because it does this sometimes when im working in Maya or photoshop so restarting is a pain. I am not sure why it does this; has anyone had the same problem??

 

[delphin]

I think you need to edit your power settings,

Control panel>classic view>power options>change plan settings>change advanced power settings expand hard disk and set turn off harddisk after policy to 10000 or more.

Post back the results

 

[oukanna]

Thankyou I have gone into the settings and changed the time to 1000 :D it was set at 20minutes....i had no idea Hard drives switched off after some time lol maybe this will help *fingers crossed*

 

[delphin]

Thankyou I have gone into the settings and changed the time to 1000 :D it was set at 20minutes....i had no idea Hard drives switched off after some time lol maybe this will help *fingers crossed*

good luck

 

[zvone727]

I think you need to edit your power settings,

Control panel>classic view>power options>change plan settings>change advanced power settings expand hard disk and set turn off harddisk after policy to 10000 or more.

Post back the results

YES! Thank you this helps very much, I already my thouht my 500gb hard drive is gone
I registered only to say thank you lol :D