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re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason
Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 5:34 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by P.
(6 messages posted)
I've desactivated the hardware for one profile, making two hardware profiles (no
windows profile, i'm talking about hardware profiles which need rebooting for switching),
that is actually nothing like an option! the drive is still launched at startup,
but then it never enters the sleep mode, and keep running!
I think I might as well do what I had thought to do at the very beginning : I'm gonna
buy a on-off switch and shut the power off whenever I don't need the drive. Don't
know whether the system is gonna like it, if not i'll do that before switching the
PC on...
Any other options?
On Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 3:14 pm, P. wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>
>Any help about that would be very appreciated.
>Many thanks
>P.
>
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