Thanks Peter. I tried running device manager and then doing a scan for new 
hardware but it didn't find the drive. I've also updated the BIOS, 
uninstalled and reinstalled the drive and that didn't help. My setup is dual 
boot With Vista Home Premium and I checked and found it is now doing the 
same thing with Vista. I tried using Hibernate rather than Sleep but it also 
didn't help.

I'm not sure what you mean by " try going to drive manager and assign a 
specific drive letter to the external drive".
When the drive is recognized it is Drive K:, when it is not recognized you 
can't see it in Device/Dive Manager!

It was working properly up until just a few days ago. I search on Google 
shows many others having similar problems but I haven't researched it enough 
to find a solutuion.

Joe Trimarchi


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From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:45 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] External HD not recognized on Boot or Wake from Sleep

> I agree with David's assessment that it is probably a Windows issue rather
> than hardware. Have you tried running device manager and doing a scan for
> new hardware? To run device manager directly rather than going through
> control panel, just run devmgmt.msc. I suspect that your drive will be
> recognized in the scan. This may not be the solution that you ultimately
> want, but it might be a patch. Also, try going to drive manager and assign 
> a
> specific drive letter to the external drive.
>
> Peter
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> I have a Dell Ispiron 545 running Win 7 Home Premium with 2 external hard
> drives connected to a USB 2 hub. Recently the Maxtor external HD is not
> recognized either when booting up or waking up after Sleep. If I unplug 
> the
> USB cable from the drive and plug it in it is immediately recognized. I've
> tried changing the USB cable, using different USB ports both on the Hub 
> and
> on the computer but it is still not recognized on boot or wake up. I would
> appreciate any suggestions to fix this if possible. If not I'll replace 
> the
> drive as the cost of external drives is quite cheap.
>
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