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Hello.

I hope this is the right forum.
I've got two harddrives in my computer, one for windows and one for storage of data. My problem is that the second harddrive constantly turns itself off when it idles for more than 20-30seconds, which results in me having to wait 5seconds for it to turn itself on when i try to access it. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that my computer freezes for those 5 seconds if it does it while i'm gaming or watching a movie.

Is there anyway to turn off this feature ?


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