Sleeping Hard Drive

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I just installed Windows Vista Premium and am in the process of
installing/upgrading my programs to run in Vista.

The problem I'm having, on of my hard drives keeps going to sleep. I have an
UPS connected to the PC and have turned off all settings that relate to
"While plugged in".

I have 2 internal HD's and 1 external. It's one of the internals that keeps
going to sleep. This did not happen in XP and I have not made any changes to
my BIOS.

The 2 internal drive are SMART compatible. Am I missing a setting some where
or what? This is my first dealling with Vista. Never ran any of the RC like
I did with XP.

Thanks for any help
Bob Eyster
 
very weird... i thought i was having this same issue but i think its gone.

its an internal 500GB SATA seagate baracuda drive. i use it for backups... i
would go to access it and explorer would lock up for maybe 2 seconds, and
you could hear the drive "click" as it woke up. i finally looked in the logs
that my RAID controller writes to and i saw warning that said "drive
deleted"... so i thought maybe a loose connection? it hasnt happened since i
changed the drive from a stand alone drive to a member of a RAID1 volume....
dont know if that helps you
 
Hi Troy,

All my drives are the standard IDE. What you explained in your message is
the same thing that happens to me.

One other thing? How do you get the Menu Bar to show in Windows Explorer. I
changed some setting and would like to apply them to all folders and
sub-folders. How does one do this without the menu bar?

Thanks
Bob Eyster
 
Go to Control Panel and use "Folder Options" Select Classic View on the 1st
dialog then you will see the Folder Options

Corel News said:
Hi Troy,

All my drives are the standard IDE. What you explained in your message is
the same thing that happens to me.

One other thing? How do you get the Menu Bar to show in Windows Explorer.
I changed some setting and would like to apply them to all folders and
sub-folders. How does one do this without the menu bar?

Thanks
Bob Eyster
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My Best
,Eugene Dreyer
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Thank for the info Eugene. This way allows the menu to stick. The way I
found---pressing the Alt key---only displays it temporary. You have to press
the alt key each time you start windows explorer.


Again thanks
Bob Eyster
 
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