Re: Disable a HDD temporarily?
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:12:47 -0500
You can not disable a hard drive in device manager. The only way is to
remove power from the device. Otherwise, the drive may be spinning but not
reading. The O/P want the drive to NOT even spin. Even the bios settings
will not prevent the drive from powering up when the computer is turned on.
It "will" be running.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:084A94A6-239A-456C-963E-820F9B001049@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Disable drive using Device Manager?
> Enable when needed.
> --
> Dennis S.
> I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.
>
>
> "CW" wrote:
>
>> I'm running XP Pro SP1, with 2 IDE HDDs. The secondary one is
>> particularly
>> noisy and I only use it occasionally for video projects, but of course it
>> spins up whenever the system is started, and although in Power Options I
>> have
>> set the hard disks to turn off after 3 minutes, it regularly starts up
>> again
>> (for indexing maybe??) and creates a racket. The desk it's on acts as a
>> soundbox and you can hear it almost throughout the house. (Unless my wife
>> is
>> snoring, when it pales into insignificance).
>> Other than opening the case and removing the cable from it, is there any
>> way
>> of disabling a secondary HDD on a temporary basis so that it won't even
>> spin
>> up on boot?
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