Being the boss of your Optical drives
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:12 am
How does one adjust the spin down time of optical drives in winXP?
Is it in the registry?
Hidden in some obscure settings file?
When XP loads the optical drives spins up to full speed, and sits there until about 1 min after the OS is full loaded. It then "spins down".
I'd really prefer the optical drive spins up only when accessed. WinXP will initially access all drives on boot, but I'd like to reduce the time to spin down.
I tried using the Nero SpeedDisk Utility, and while it would adjust my spin rate(40X, 4X etc), the option to adjust the spin down from minutes to seconds to microseconds, just didnt seem to work.
I found the master setting for turning off "autoplay".
from cmd prompt, GPEDIT.MSC (group policy editor)
There is a list of master settings, one is enable/disable autoplay.
You can also adjust individual profiles, but this setting effects them all.
Is it in the registry?
Hidden in some obscure settings file?
When XP loads the optical drives spins up to full speed, and sits there until about 1 min after the OS is full loaded. It then "spins down".
I'd really prefer the optical drive spins up only when accessed. WinXP will initially access all drives on boot, but I'd like to reduce the time to spin down.
I tried using the Nero SpeedDisk Utility, and while it would adjust my spin rate(40X, 4X etc), the option to adjust the spin down from minutes to seconds to microseconds, just didnt seem to work.
I found the master setting for turning off "autoplay".
from cmd prompt, GPEDIT.MSC (group policy editor)
There is a list of master settings, one is enable/disable autoplay.
You can also adjust individual profiles, but this setting effects them all.