I'm running Vista 64, though this happened on Vista 32 and XP as well:
Every 20 minutes or so my HDDs spin up, even my external. Is there a reason for this? My drives aren't soft mounted (anymore) so I do hear this rather well, especially on my external drive. I'd like to let windows shut my drives off, but I find the spin-up noise more distracting than the constant whirr of the active drives.
Windows spinning up HDDs
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Turning off indexing in Win XP.
Did you stop the indexing service too?
Here's how to turn off indexing in Win XP:
http://lifehacker.com/software/optimiza ... 031440.php
Here's how to turn off indexing in Win XP:
http://lifehacker.com/software/optimiza ... 031440.php