HDD Disappears when waking up from sleep - WIndows 10

[yemmyow]

Here are my PC specs.

- Intel i7 6700K Skylake 4.0GHz
- Gigagbyte Gaming 5 Motherboard (most recent BIOS update F21)
- 16GB DDR4 3200 RAM - O.C.
- (1) 1TB HDD 3.5" 7200RPM
- (1) 500GB HDD 2.5" 7200RPM - HDD with problem
- (1) 256GB Samsung SSD - Win10 64-bit OS install location
- Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 3GB MSI

Hey everyone, first off, I would like to thank you for coming to this thread and reading my current problem and also I appreciate the fact that you are trying to help a complete stranger.

So here's the problem that I have. My 2.5" 500GB HDD disappears when waking the computer up from a prolonged sleep. The applications installed on the HDD are no longer usable because the PC doesn't detect the HDD. So what I have to do everytime is go to the device manager > right click drives & storage > scan for hardware changes. Then the 2.5" HDD appears and all the programs can be used.

It's a temporary fix but the icons for the programs installed on that HDD show as white missing icons on my desktop. I really don't know where to start as troubleshooting this issue. I did go to control panel > detect and fix problems. but that didn't solve the issue.

Please help! Thanks!

 

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I had that issue with my spinning drives. I have two Samsung SSDs and two 4TB Seagate drives for general storage. I don't use sleep however. but randomly one of my spinning drives would just drop out. I finally "fixed" it by not using SATA power plugs. My case has two hot swap bays and I moved my storage drives into there. It's powered by a single 4pin "molex" plug that powers a small circuit board which then gives the drives power over the normal SATA power plugs. I have no idea why the normal SATA plugs failed to work for my spinning drives. But since I've had them up there they've been fine. Go figure.

Try powering that drive via other ways. It's own power plug, an adapter, external power if you need to.