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HDD will not stay idle
To help my power hungry T61 last while on battery power, I have my WD Scorpio set to turn off after 1 minute of being idle. This is great for class, I load up my notes at once at the beginning of lecture and just maximize life.
Thing is, the drive will not stay idle for longer than 40-50 seconds usually.
I have tried many things like turning off the pagefile, editing the registry to disable prefetching. The best impact was turning off indexing, though I like the utility a lot. Now my computer will shut off the HDD for about 2 minutes max, but it will still spin up to write to C:\$LogFile, and the C:\$MST, etc
Can anyone offer any insight? I would prefer my drive to stay off unless I specifically load a file or new application
Pic: what spools the HDD while being idle