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I have 1TB Seagate Portable External Hard Drive STAX1000102. I am using it with laptops, Windows XP and Windows 7, and I am observing that after certain time of being idle, and accessing the drive again, it freezes for cca 4 seconds before it can read from it again. Can you tell what is happening?

But the most annoying problem happens on Windows 7 (not on Windows XP) - message pops up, saying:

The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?

This is not happening when I insert the drive, as in the case of damaged partitions, TrueCrypt devices etc. It just happens in the middle of the drive being connected (but somehow disconnected by Windows maybe), maybe after I open the laptop after it has been closed in the middle of the work.

  1. What is the cause of the problem? As I said, the partitions are OK, it doesn't appear when I connect the drive. I prefer to look at the cause first.

  2. If the cause cannot be "healed", what are other options/workarounds? Those offered for TrueCrypt doesn't seem to be related to my case. And the tool for canceling the dialog is a dirty solution...

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I am using it with laptops, Windows XP and Windows 7, and I am observing that after certain time of being idle, and accessing the drive again, it freezes for cca 4 seconds before it can read from it again. Can you tell what is happening?

The internal drive likely a "Green" drive which means it enters a low powered state after a certain amount of time.

What is the cause of the problem? As I said, the partitions are OK, it doesn't appear when I connect the drive. I prefer to look at the cause first.

Windows believes the drive does not have a file system. You don't indicate the file system, so its tough, to guess what the problemn is.

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