Turning off two hard drives...

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Tue May 27, 2003 5:47 am

In windows I have it set to turn off my whiny Maxtor after 3 minutes. However it does not do this for my somewhat whiny aged WD 10GB drive. Is it because a 10GB 4200RPM drive would probably be too old for this? Thanks!

JEN · Post by **JEN** » Tue May 27, 2003 5:55 am

I had the same problem and ended up removing the hard drives because I couldn't solve the problem.

I only have 1 hard drive in there now - Cuda V 120

I would like to add the older hard drives - 6Gb Maxtor and 40Gb IBM deskstar, but they are too noisy. If only I could turn them off some how after a little while

HadroLepton · Post by **HadroLepton** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:16 am

is it your system drive? do you have programs running that are accessing the drive? if the drive is in use it wont turn off

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Tue May 27, 2003 7:21 am

It turns off my main drive (Maxtor) but dosent turn off the old one (Western Digital). interestingly, the Maxtor houses the OS I use most (and the one I am trying to get the HDDs to turn off in) and the WD has a tryout of Windows Server 2003 on it which I rarely use and barely access.

Can Windows only turn off the main HDD?

JEN · Post by **JEN** » Tue May 27, 2003 7:35 am

It wouldn't turn off any hard drive for me ?

pingu666 · Post by **pingu666** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:23 am

i think its dodgy :\

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:31 am

pingu666 wrote:i think its dodgy :\

I honestly have no clue what you mean, clarify?

JEN · Post by **JEN** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:39 am

He thinks its not completely error free, i.e. that feature could have bugs in it

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:53 am

JEN wrote:He thinks its not completely error free, i.e. that feature could have bugs in it

Did you double post intentionally or is this a forum bug that popped up to suite the moment?

JEN · Post by **JEN** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:53 am

He thinks its not completely error free, i.e. that feature could have bugs in it

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:55 am

JEN wrote:He thinks its not completely error free, i.e. that feature could have bugs in it

OK, you can stop now JEN. Any comments from anyone?

JEN · Post by **JEN** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:59 am

Athlon Powers wrote:
JEN wrote:He thinks its not completely error free, i.e. that feature could have bugs in it
OK, you can stop now JEN. Any comments from anyone?

Hay, how did that happen

after reading your new post, I scrolled up to see what you were on about and I saw my post there 3 times, Whats going on. I honestly did not mean to do that.

[edit]Oh hand on, it might have something to do with the fact that I used the back and forward iExplorer buttons ? I did not realise the back and forward buttons would do that

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wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Tue May 27, 2003 10:23 am

Hah. That's pretty funny. Well done, Mr. Powers, sneaking your post in the middle of JEN's triple post!

glassjoe · Post by **glassjoe** » Tue May 27, 2003 1:02 pm

I'm having similar troubles powering down my Barracuda V 60GB drive on Windows 2000 Server.

I have Windows XP Pro on my laptop and my hard drives always power down after they aren't accessed for 5 minutes.

But on my Windows 2000 machine, even though I set the power settings to do the exact same thing, the drive starts up after a couple minutes after it has powered down.

Does anyone have trouble powering down drives on Windows XP Pro?

CHHAS · Post by **CHHAS** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:35 pm

I have the same problem in WinXP pro. Set my harddrives to turn off after 5 minutes. The backup drive, which is only accessed once every 3 hours to do a backup, powers up again after a few minutes.

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:52 am

CHHAS wrote:I have the same problem in WinXP pro. Set my harddrives to turn off after 5 minutes. The backup drive, which is only accessed once every 3 hours to do a backup, powers up again after a few minutes.

Perhaps this is because your backup drive has the swap-file on it? So when Windows caches something to it or reads from it will reactive the drive.

I am starting to have this problem on mine, when I took out my second HDD it will rarely turn off my main one now. I wonder why since even when I had two drives the swap-file was still on my main drive!?