Windows 7 Turn off hard drive

patcooke

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• Feb 22, 2012

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If you only use it occasionally you might as well buy a usb caddy for it and use it as an external drive, plugging it in only when needed.

 

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Mitchell_A

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• Feb 26, 2012

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You can change the Windows power options to automatically spin-down hard drives in your computer after a certain period of inactivity. Otherwise, I don't know of any method to do this.

I've moved this thread to Windows 7 Hardware.

 

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zepe

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• Feb 26, 2012

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Thanks Mitchell, that should work for me, I just don't want it to be running so much the time.

 

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Mitchell_A

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• Feb 27, 2012

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In Windows 7 it should be set to 20 minutes by default. To change this, open Power Options>>Change Plan Settings>>Change Advanced Power Settings>>Hard Disk>>Turn off Hard Disk after. Set your desired value in minutes.

 

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