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Hard drive letter disappears after not using drive

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I have an external firewire hardrive and after I do not access it for say maybe a day or so the drive letter disappears and I can't access that drive. It does not show in my computer or disk management.
The firewire device has the latest driver and says it is working properly.

If I remove the firewire cable and the power then plug it back in it still does not show up.

If I reboot it will show up again and can be used.

Annoying.

My machine is running windows Vista.

Thanks,

Mike

go into yr device driver manager and check for Power Saving feature - turn it off.

also, check if yr computer is configured to go to sleep or put the hdd to sleep after ???hrs.
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