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New Hard disk and BackUp - Wake from sleep Problem

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Hello,
i today changed my old Hitachi Deskstar 320GB hard disk for a faster 300GB Velociraptor. I formatted the new drive first in NTFS as usual and then put my Acronis True Image 2011 boot disk in and copied across the most recent ATI backup that i had on my "My Book" external drive to my new drive and booted up. All good (and fast) so far.
Everything is working as expected and i can already see a big difference in access times . BUT....
Now when i sleep my pc and then wake it back up , it takes around 40 seconds to wake up !! Before the drive change it was about 5 seconds. The computer reacts to me waking it and the fans go and i hear the hard drive spin etc but its like its waiting for the new hard disk to find the data to wake up and turn the monitor on ! I didnt change any SATA leads or any settings, it was a straight swap and same drive name C: Any ideas what could be causing the delay ? Thank you all.
I just used the recover disk option and chose my back up ticked restore MBR and Track 0 as usual .

The new drive is 20GB smaller , should i try clone instead of the restore option ??

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One thing you could try would be to do a restore again except checkmark only the MBR/track0 option and click Next. This screen will be where you will select the new faster disk as the target but you should also have another option which is "Recover Disk signature" and you should checkmark this option also and click proceed.

So, what you are restoring is two items.
MBR/track0
Recover disk signature.

This should be done when booted from the Rescue CD.

The disk signature is an identification method for some programs and this may help to resolve some of your issues.

Hello and thank you,
Unfortunately that didnt work either . I hear the new drive spin up, and then it goes quiet for 30 seconds or so and then loads the data and the computer wakes up. I dont know what else to try really. Would clone help ?

Managed to solve it !!!!

I had to uninstall the nforce SMBUS drivers etc and then reinstall. Now it all works fine.

What pointed you to that solution?

GroverH wrote:

What pointed you to that solution?

I had to do a bit of thinking and remembered my motherboard was an Nvidia based board with Nforce SMBUS SATA and IDE drivers. I figured that maybe the new drive ( as it wasnt the same model or brand) might be rectified by uninistalling the SATA drivers etc inc in the Nforce package and reinstalling .
I tried it and it worked, the new hard disk came out of sleep in 5 seconds . I have now made a new image to reflect this with the new drive so that should be that . Thanks again though.