Thank you for this info. I have overlooked the link to the advanced
settings. The time for powering down my harddisk, even in the maximum
performance plan, was set to 20 minutes. I set it to 0 (Never) now. I will
watch my PC for the next couple hours and report back if this helped me.
"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Use the Advanced options for fine control over power saving settings. And
> make sure that the problem is not a loose cable or failing drive - when
> the system is in use drives should not be going to sleep.
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> "Micheal" <frixxin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>I use IDE and have 3 harddrives of the same type. They are Hitachi
>>Deskstar 180GXP.
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>> Now sometimes one of them go to sleep-mode and then spin up again. It
>> happens every now and sound like i would be booting my computer. But i am
>> using my computer, so i don't understand why Vista is powering my
>> harddrives up and down even while i am working on my PC.
>>
>> How can i stop this? Is there a option like.. "don't put harddisk to
>> sleep if not accessed" ?
>>
>> I would rather like my HDDs spinning smoothly all the time.
>>
>> PS: i already have my power settings on maximum performance.
>>
>> TIA!
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