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re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 4:01 pm Posted by P. (6 messages posted) Don't know if that matters, but I have forgotten to precise that i'm running windows XP Pro with SP2. I have usually in background Asus probe (for temperature & fan speed monitoring), MSN and Norton AV & System works. Sometimes winamp, thunderbird... Thx for helping. P. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 7:56 pm Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted) TweakUI has the option to hide drives in Explorer. Would that help? Does your AV scanner scan files in the background? The Wereotter [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 4:27 am Posted by P. (6 messages posted) In spite of its name, that feature doesn't hide drive, it hides partitions. It does seem to help however, for preventing file explorer to access the drive, and the changes are local to one user (good thing) but the 2nd drive is still being relaunched when I open the bin, or when I launch norton system works (sometimes not!) and I'm sure I can find still more actions like that with more testing, so I guess the system still knows that the drive is here and will always find a good reason for requesting access to it. The problem is, I think, that whenever an application tries to list the drives all of them have to be launched. (The AV doesn't scan files randomly, just downloads and that kind of stuff). Thanks Otter, does anyone else have an idea how to solved that problem? (without having to reboot every times) The ideal might be to have a user account with the drive really hidden from the system. Is that possible? P. On Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Otter wrote: >TweakUI has the option to hide drives in Explorer. Would that help? Does your AV >scanner scan files in the background? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 5:34 am 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. > > >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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 10:04 am Posted by P. (6 messages posted) I also had to desactivate Norton AV mail filtering and liveupdate because those would, for mysterious reasons, relaunch the drive. Now I think I'm getting to it, haven't had any problem for several hours, cool! :) On Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Otter wrote: >TweakUI has the option to hide drives in Explorer. Would that help? Does your AV >scanner scan files in the background? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Slave hard-drive accessed with no obvious reason Monday, October 4, 2004 at 9:28 am Posted by P. (6 messages posted) Actually it is still not enough, the 2nd drive happen to be relaunched : - When I open a file located on the 1st drive - When I delete a file located on the 1st drive - While I'm sitting, watching my screen (!). Anybody can help pls?? On Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 10:04 am, P. wrote: >I also had to desactivate Norton AV mail filtering and liveupdate because those would, >for mysterious reasons, relaunch the drive. > Now I think I'm getting to it, haven't had any problem for several hours, cool! >:) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum