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Does anyone know what the deal is with hard drives that stop being recognized in Windows connected via USB? The reason I ask is because I would like to start using my TeraByte Imaging software more aggressively so that I can swap out operating systems easier. 1 and 2 terabyte harddrives are so cheap I could just pop one in with a SATA to USB adapter and share it via SMB, but one problem I have with some of the SATA to USB adapters seem to stop being recognized after it sits without any drive activity for a long while. Is it strange because some of my external USB drives that were sold as USB hard drives do not have that problem, but sometime I plug a SATA device in a a SATA to USB adapter and after a while it stops being recognized by Windows and I have to RDP into the computer, which is in my closet and reboot it. It is even more annoying when I forget to check and I have already booted into TeraByte WinPE and then can not connect SMB and have to go to the physical computer to reboot windows. When it happens, the device manager just shows an unrecognized USB device or maybe it was malfunctioning. My hope is that this is due to buying the usb to sata adapter that was cheapest and just spending more money will fix the problem.

I did just ask chatGPT the question below and it gave a long and seemingly useful answer.

If a usb device in Windows is malfunctioning, what APIs can I use to figure out what the problem is between the usb device and communicating with windows? The usb device is a USB to SATA adapter with a hard drive attached.
 
It may be that the host is powering down the USB port after a period of inactivity. Check the power settings on each USB host and port to see if power-saving is enabled ( I think it is by default). If so, disable it.
 
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