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    External Hard Drives Ignoring "Turn off Hard Disk After" Setting – Mixed Results on Win 10/11

    I have two laptops (Windows 10) and a mini-PC (Windows 11) with external USB hard drives connected. The "Turn off hard disk after" setting is set to 10 minutes on all devices, but the drives turn off at different times on each machine. One shuts off around 2 minutes, another at 3, another at 6...
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    • device management energy settings external storage hard drive shutdown hardware issues mini-pc operating systems performance issues power settings rdp sessions sleep timer system configuration system updates troubleshooting usb hard drives user experience version differences windows 10 windows 11
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Disk Management no longer automatically assigning drive letters to external usb hard drives.

    I use a lot of different usb hard drives in my shop. I have two basic enclosures, a generic one that uses pata drives on a usb 2.0 cable and an Apricon USB SATA 2.0 adapter. Suddenly when I plug in a new drive device manager does see the drive and installs it in device manager. I can see the...
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    • chipset drivers computer issues device manager disk management drive cleanup drive letters external drives pata drives registry fix sata adapter service pack 1 storage devices troubleshooting usb enclosures usb hard drives windows 7 windows 7 pro
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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