spare Hard drive "not responding"

Hammy · 7 Oct 2008 at 22:56

not sure of this is a H/D prob but when i go into browse a file on my D/second drive it hangs or does not respond for ages then it opens and all seems ok the drive is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA-II i scanned drive with SeeTools from seagate web site and its showing no problems

any ideas ?

bledd · 8 Oct 2008 at 09:39

vista?

secondary drive going to sleep after x minutes to save power

takes a few seconds to come online again

Hammy · 8 Oct 2008 at 10:05

XP home
not sure about a sleep mode tho sometimes i get into it ok and go through some folders ok then it will just hang

bledd · 8 Oct 2008 at 11:33

hmm

what AV are you using..?

try disabling it..

drive might be on it's way out

Imy · 8 Oct 2008 at 11:54

Sounds like power saving to me too.

Try turning the specific option(s) off for hard disk power saving in control panel and see if it makes a difference.

Andrewf1987 · 8 Oct 2008 at 11:55

This is what happened to me just before my drive gave up!

I would copy everything off it onto another just to be sure, I am running solid state drives now I have had enough of moving parts causing me problems.

Does it copy files slowly? as this is also what mine did, the PC is had it in was very slow and I assumed this was the problem.

When I rebuilt my PC and re installed XP the disk was clicking and all my data I dumped on there for the re install is now gone.

Hammy · 8 Oct 2008 at 17:59

just checked C/Panel and hard drive power is already set to "Never" turn off drives
useing AVg atm tryed turning off still the same