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Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason
Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 3:14 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by P.
(6 messages posted)
I have a question about Stop
Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
I'm running windows XP SP2 and I have two hard-drive :
- a new and silent one with the OS and some data (master)
- an old and noisy with more datas, only used for storage (slave)
I have been looking for a software that could desactivate/reactivate a hard-drive
without rebooting (which I can do from the control panel by desactivating the hardware),
because my slave hard-drive keeps running with no obvious reason.
I've turned it to sleep at the end of 5 mn of inactivity but it restarts later while
I'm browsing with the file explorer within the new drive, or when I'm downloading
datas to the new drive.
My pagefile.sys is of course on my C:\ drive so I don't understand why the old has
to be relaunched.
I'm using Norton Internet Security 2004 so I already had to desactivate some functions
of the AV to prevent it from analysing the boot sectors all the times, but I guess
that windows of some program will always find a good reason for accessing my slave
drive.
That's why I thought it would be easier to desactivate it via a software (with no
need rebooting the system).
Or if there was a way of creating 2 user accounts and hiding the partitions from
one of them, I would do it but I don’t know how to do that.
Restricting the access of the partitions won’t prevent the launching of the drive,
I believe, from some system process.
Any help about that would be very appreciated.
Many thanks
P.
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