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usb drive is powering down when idle, dont want it to
Ok I got a 120gig old ide drive in use via usb cable to my pc. I do plan to replace this soon with a drive that will be going internal but for now I am using it. However it keeps powering down when idle and I dont want it power cycling, is there a way to make it stay on without opening up the case and putting it directly into an ide port?
I am looking in device manager and thinking about enabling write cache which removes the instant removal feature but that may not solve the problem and leave it with corrupted writes.