re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 9:26 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) To power down, no.. I have yet to see an external that powers down. They will spin the drive down after a certian period of inactivity, but many seem to need a power cycle to restart. I have a network disk that will spin down and back up again after a certian period of inactivity but others that I own will not restart properly. Power saving is controlled in the firmware of the external drive IME.. Maxtor might be able to answer the question for you, but I'm sure they will tell you the same thing... On Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 8:22 am, Karl Jackson wrote: >I have a Maxtor 3100 external USB drive. Is it possible to force >it to power down when I power down the PC, via a program and/or script of some sort? Written in response to: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 8:22 am) Responses to this message: re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Monday, January 8, 2007 at 4:23 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Sun, Jan 7, 2007, 8:22 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Sun, Jan 7, 2007, 9:26 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 4:23 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 7:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum