- Jun 21, 2010
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Hello, I am trying to limit my additional hard drives from spinning up/starting for unwanted reasons such as:
-Spinning up when I search something in the startmenu, just to load icons -_-
-Spinning up for other information, for example when I hover the mouse over a shortcut on another drive
-Spinning up when opening task manager (???) task manager doesn't open until the drive finished doing WHAT EVER
-Spinning up when shutting down the computer
-Spinning up all drives on boot (would be cool to stop that too, if possible)
Basically I only want my C:\ Windows drive to be running all the time, and manually starting hard drives when I need them. I want this to save energy and to put less wear on my drives, but the constant spin ups and downs are even For example if want to play a game on my G:\ drive, I double click the icon to start up the drive and the game, or I want to start up my X:\ drive to save some files there, so I manually go to "My Computer" and open it with a double click.
NOTE:
I'm not using my extra drives for virtual memory at all, so that's not it.
Is there a way to tell Windows to ignore the extra drives, unless I manually start them up or something? Or maybe another solution, anything that helps.
This has been bothering me for a long time...
Thank you.
-Spinning up when I search something in the startmenu, just to load icons -_-
-Spinning up for other information, for example when I hover the mouse over a shortcut on another drive
-Spinning up when opening task manager (???) task manager doesn't open until the drive finished doing WHAT EVER
-Spinning up when shutting down the computer
-Spinning up all drives on boot (would be cool to stop that too, if possible)
Basically I only want my C:\ Windows drive to be running all the time, and manually starting hard drives when I need them. I want this to save energy and to put less wear on my drives, but the constant spin ups and downs are even For example if want to play a game on my G:\ drive, I double click the icon to start up the drive and the game, or I want to start up my X:\ drive to save some files there, so I manually go to "My Computer" and open it with a double click.
NOTE:
I'm not using my extra drives for virtual memory at all, so that's not it.
Is there a way to tell Windows to ignore the extra drives, unless I manually start them up or something? Or maybe another solution, anything that helps.
This has been bothering me for a long time...
Thank you.
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