Re: Disable a HDD temporarily?

is it one of the 10,000 rpm drives? If so they are fast, but noisy as you
have found.


"CW" <CW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks, but I did try that previously and it doesn't seem to stop the disk
> powering up and running. It just makes it inaccessible. I guess I'll pull
> the
> cable, that's the only sure way. BTW re your second post and the warning
> re
> failure, I know what you're saying but this one is only a few months old,
> a
> WD Caviar, and has always been noisy from the start. My C drive is a
> Samsung
> and it barely hums.
> Should have got another one of those. Next time...
> I'm from England. Thanks for your help.
>
> "Dixonian69" wrote:
>
>> 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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