Turning off harddrives in windows

TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
I use 2 harddrives but only one needs to be on all the time so i have left the chooser to spin down after 3 minutes of idle. This has always worked fine but both my WD se´s are spinning up for a while, then goes down without that i am using them.

There must be some sort of service in XP that does this but i´m not really sure which. This is a PITA since they are by far the most noisiest parts of my rig. Any tips?

The only things i have running as far as applications is concerned is Cacheman, Sygate, the ATI thing and Folding. All of them is installed on my OS drive, NO other programs are installed on the other drives either by the way.

Edit**// Stupid me just remembered that i have the swap on one of the disks but that doesn´t mean both should be running.

TIA

Mac

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    You could kill all programs, change the location of the swap file and see if it still happens. While your at it, disable all unnecessary services.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I killed a million and a half of services and i THINK it solved it. Thanks a bunch. Saved up some memory as well.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Incase anyone else wants to disable unwanted services you can get the guide for XP and for 2K (Source). Make a system restore point, ghost image or have you cd around ICSH.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Black Hawk said
    Incase anyone else wants to disable unwanted services you can get the guide for XP and for 2K (Source). Make a system restore point, ghost image or have you cd around ICSH.

    It´s a bitch if you disable the system restore service though! ;D
    Unless you use ghost or something.
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