External USB disk drive cannot be remounted in Windows XP

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Published on 2010-05-02T09:16:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 9:18 UTC
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I have Maxtor Basics Desktop 1TB external USB drive connected to Windows XP. The dirve's firmware puts it to sleep after 10-20 min of inactivity and then the drive cannot be mounted unless I reset it via power connector. While in sleep mode I can see the device in the Device Manager under both Disk drives and USB sections. Is there a way to get the drive out of sleep mode without hard reset?

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