Hard drive stops/starts every minute

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All,

The second hard drive working on the second IDE controller stops and starts
approximately every minute. It's very annoying especially keeping in mind
that the second device on the same controller is used by RW-DVD and these
ON/OFF affect the CD/DVD writing. How can I make this hard drive always
working if BIOS switched to ALWAYS ON, Savers on laptop are also don't allow
to disable the hard drive or computer. What's going on there? Can this hard
drive disable itself regardless the Windows XP Professional settings? Or
it's a WindowsXP bug?

The latest service packs are installed.

Dmitri.

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Hi Ronnie

> > The second hard drive working on the second IDE controller stops and
> > starts approximately every minute. It's very annoying especially

> Use the Task Manager to determine what application is using that hard
drive
> when it is active. It should be readily apparent in the Processes tab/CPU
> column.

You know I'd like to have this hard drive always ON, but nothing helps me to
disable this green mode and that's strange for me. It works fine on desktops
but doesn't work on this laptop.

Dmitri.

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Hi Rock,

Thank you for the suggestion, but properly you have not read the original
message - it's LAPTOP!-)

Just D.

> > The second hard drive working on the second IDE controller stops and
starts
> > approximately every minute. It's very annoying especially keeping in
mind
> > that the second device on the same controller is used by RW-DVD and
these
> > ON/OFF affect the CD/DVD writing. How can I make this hard drive always
> > working if BIOS switched to ALWAYS ON, Savers on laptop are also don't
allow
> > to disable the hard drive or computer. What's going on there? Can this
hard
> > drive disable itself regardless the Windows XP Professional settings? Or
> > it's a WindowsXP bug?

> It's not a good idea to have a hard drive on a secondary channel with an
> optical drive. Put both hard drives on primary, optical drives on the
> secondary.

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Hi Rock,

> > Thank you for the suggestion, but properly you have not read the
original
> > message - it's LAPTOP!-)
>
> lol..sorry about missing that.

You know, I think I found a temporary solution and bought an external box
for this hard drive. Anyway it's more flexible, I will use it with different
machines and it will be possible to disconnect one if required.

But anyway the problem is not solved yet. I'm also suspecting that the same
thing is going on with my first hard drive. It's very fast and silent but
nevertheless I hear a very low noise when it starts after stop. All green
functions are DISABLED everywhere. Thanks Microsoft for this software that
thinks that is smarter than the user using it.

P.S. I guess that these start/stops will decrease the life time of these
hard drives. Microsoft, thanks again. That's the obvious bug.

Dmitri.

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Just D. wrote:

> Hi Rock,
>
>
>>>Thank you for the suggestion, but properly you have not read the
>
> original
>
>>>message - it's LAPTOP!-)
>>
>>lol..sorry about missing that.
>
>
> You know, I think I found a temporary solution and bought an external box
> for this hard drive. Anyway it's more flexible, I will use it with different
> machines and it will be possible to disconnect one if required.
>
> But anyway the problem is not solved yet. I'm also suspecting that the same
> thing is going on with my first hard drive. It's very fast and silent but
> nevertheless I hear a very low noise when it starts after stop. All green
> functions are DISABLED everywhere. Thanks Microsoft for this software that
> thinks that is smarter than the user using it.
>
> P.S. I guess that these start/stops will decrease the life time of these
> hard drives. Microsoft, thanks again. That's the obvious bug.
>
> Dmitri.

Dmitri, post back if/when you get it sorted out so others can benefit.
Sorry I don't have any more suggestions.

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"Just D." <no@spam.please> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> The second hard drive working on the second IDE controller
stops and starts
> approximately every minute. It's very annoying especially
keeping in mind
> that the second device on the same controller is used by RW-DVD
and these
> ON/OFF affect the CD/DVD writing. How can I make this hard
drive always
> working if BIOS switched to ALWAYS ON, Savers on laptop are
also don't allow
> to disable the hard drive or computer. What's going on there?
Can this hard
> drive disable itself regardless the Windows XP Professional
settings? Or
> it's a WindowsXP bug?
>
> The latest service packs are installed.
>
> Dmitri.
>
This may be worthless but I had a similar problem right after I
installed my HP 1012 Laser Jet Printer. Every few seconds the
hard drive light would blink and the mouse cursor would flash the
hourglass for a split second. It drove me nuts and I eventually
solved it by using Task Manager. I added a few columns to the
Task Manager, Processes window, so I could see what I/O was
working and it helped me discover that Hewlett Packard had
installed a program on my computer called statusclient.exe that
was accessing the hard drive. I stopped the process and my
problem was solved. Emailed HP and they said the program was not
necessary but would not tell me what it did.
--
John Vittoe
"Chance Favors a Prepared Mind."
Louis Pasteur
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