Windows Vista shuts down my secondary harddrives, way to fix?

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited April 2007 in Science & Tech
Read title... Vista likes shutting down my drives and it locks my computer up for a few seconds every so often and really annoys me. I've never seen this happen in XP before. Is there an easy fix I am not seeing?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2007
    Head to the device manager and check the power profile on the hard drives or the controllers under the properties menus. Something along the lines of "Allow windows to power down this device to save power."
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2007
    Never been on vista but is there a time limit that when being in an idle state exceding that time limit it shuts down a hard drive? To save power like Thrax mentioned.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited April 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Head to the device manager and check the power profile on the hard drives or the controllers under the properties menus. Something along the lines of "Allow windows to power down this device to save power."

    Unfortunately there is no such option, but I did check again.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited April 2007
    D00D wrote:
    Unfortunately there is no such option, but I did check again.


    Remove the vista infection and install windows XP.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited April 2007
    GrayFox wrote:
    Remove the vista infection and install windows XP.

    hehe... XP is installed, I'm just "trialing" Vista, and I only have *caugh* 8 days left *caugh* so...

    I'd really like to get a couple of these vista annoyances cleared up, I'm sure it's possible, or will be eventually, unless Micro$oft are a$$e$, oh wait, nevermind...
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