Sleeping Hard Drive

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



"Corel News" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:eHQ83GsSHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>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
>

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


"Troy McClure" <g@s.com> wrote in message
news:981F2454-6834-4C6C-ABDA-DC1198734EAC@microsoft.com...
> 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
>
>
>
> "Corel News" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:eHQ83GsSHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>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
>>
>

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

"Corel News" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OSg5334SHHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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
>
>
> "Troy McClure" <g@s.com> wrote in message
> news:981F2454-6834-4C6C-ABDA-DC1198734EAC@microsoft.com...
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> "Corel News" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:eHQ83GsSHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>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
>>>
>>
>

--



My Best
,Eugene Dreyer
eugenedreyer@sbcglobal.net

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



"Eugene" <eugenedreyer@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:%23dmNv35SHHA.3316@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Go to Control Panel and use "Folder Options" Select Classic View on the
> 1st dialog then you will see the Folder Options
>
> "Corel News" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:OSg5334SHHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>>
>> "Troy McClure" <g@s.com> wrote in message
>> news:981F2454-6834-4C6C-ABDA-DC1198734EAC@microsoft.com...
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Corel News" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:eHQ83GsSHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
>
>
>
> My Best
> ,Eugene Dreyer
> eugenedreyer@sbcglobal.net