Re: FN-FORUM: External hard drive - how to stop "spin-down"?

date posted 22nd August 2007 19:03


On 22 Aug 2007, at 18:44, Juraj Seffer wrote:

>
> Right, if I don't access it for few mins (dont know exact time), it
> spins down. I looked at device manager - no settings I can use.
> Although it does show drive's power state capabilities - PDCAP D0,
> PDCAP D3 and PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D0, whatever those mean...
>

have you looked at power options in control panel, turn off hard
disks says?

Assuming Windows XP.

if it's something else, what?