Hard Drive won't shut down while on idle

sirsomething

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Hello all and thanks in advance.

Recently I noticed my pc was making strange resonating noises and I found it was from my two hard drive running at the same time.
To solve this I check the power option to turn disks off while on idle but it won't seem to work.
After this, I dowloaded Sysinternals Process Explorer to see what was using my drives and, while everything is normal on D: drive, on E: drive I found some processes related to explorer.exe and that might be the problem

Hope some of you can help me. Thanks
 
Hi there sirsomething,

I guess you can attach the drive to another port so they are not close to each other. That way, you should decrease the resonating noises.
Apart from that, you can check what are these processes. It may not be a good idea to disable/stop them. What is stored on the drive? Some media or some applications?

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