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Windows 7 SP1: Hard Drives Disappear after Sleep Resume

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Found an old closed thread that gave http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977178 as the solution to the problem - but that hotfix won't install to an SP1 machine. Looking for a solution for Windows 7 SP1. The drive in question is one of the newer Seagate BarracudaLP drives. Seagate was no help, and MS want's me to pay them $200+ to even be able to ask them about it (with no actual help guaranteed for that money).

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The Power settings in Windows 7 is not automatically set for maximum performance. By default the power plan in Windows 7 is set for a balanced performance with energy consumption on hardware. So you may not get the optimal performance from windows 7 if this is the case. So we need to change the power plan to High Performance Mode.

Double click the Power Options in the Control panel.
Click the down arrow showing Show Additional Plans to see the High Performance power plan
Now just activate the High Performance plan and that's it.
Go for the advanced power settings.
Go to Hard disk, then to Turn off hard disk after and set it to Never.

I'll try that, but the issue is with sleep resume of the SYSTEM not of the drive. Don't see how setting the drive to never go to sleep will help, since everything shuts down when the system goes to sleep.

System has 3 drives, and only the 2TB BarracudaLP has the issue. The 1TB WD Green drive does not. Primary system drive is an SSD, so no 'spin up' time there.
 
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