Problem solved! Even easier then the other stuff. When I booted up in XP, been a long time, there was some magical software that loaded when the drive was hooked up. Low and behold with it was all kinds of cool stuff like all the auto backup and power management settings. I was able to turn power save from 15 minutes to OFF. Now no more problems. Wish that stuff popped up and loaded in oS, but it’s fixed now so oh well.
Thanks for the help guys,
Bill