Second drive won't wake up???

[Steve Rimar]

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64.
When windows goes to sleep my D: WD 250gig slave PATA drive will not wake.

My C: Main drive is a SATA WD 1tb.
I have heard others had some problems with drives not waking after Windows goes to sleep.
Is there a fix or something I can do to fix the problem?

 

[SirGCal]

I haven't had a system go to sleep for a very long time... My first thoughts though would be something with a BIOS configuration and or update that might be the key here. IDE drives are pretty simple but don't support the re-connectivity of SATA.

Also, with that old IDE drive, do you have it jumper-set or cable select... Might be drive specific... Just thinking out loud. Things to look over.

 

[Steve Rimar]

It is jumper select.

 

[SirGCal]

My first suspicion is still the BIOS in one form or another. But you might try just reconfiguring it to a cable-select mode to see if it is more easily recognized. Perhaps that part of the drive itself is failing.