Windows spinning up HDDs

aburgard · Post by **aburgard** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:24 pm

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.

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:45 pm

its possibly the indexing service, but i'm not sure about now to stop that.

if its not indexing, then it has to do with the recovery monitoring

aburgard · Post by **aburgard** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:50 pm

I have indexing off, so not that. I'll have to check on recovery.

sjoukew · Post by **sjoukew** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:16 am

When you open an explorer window, save as window, etc, it will often spin-up all drives to show the panel with some information.
When are your drives spinning-up? when you are doing something of when you aren't doing anything at all?

kevinfelker42 · Post by **kevinfelker42** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:52 pm

Did you stop the indexing service too?

Here's how to turn off indexing in Win XP:

http://lifehacker.com/software/optimiza ... 031440.php

Windows spinning up HDDs

Windows spinning up HDDs

Turning off indexing in Win XP.