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How to prevent ONE hard drive from spinning down?
My computer contains one SSD + four noisy HDDs that I don't use very often (mostly just storage and backup).
To keep my computer quiet and prevent wear & tear, I've set my Power Options to spin down the drives after 20 minutes :)
The problem is that it also spins down my D drive - where I keep my Desktop, all my work, and stuff I use all the time. I hate having to wait for this to spin up!
Is there any way to turn off power saving for JUST ONE DRIVE?
I found a tutorial to do this for Windows 8 (https://superuser.com/questions/6136...ach-hard-drive) which adds a "MinimumIdleTimeoutInMS" to the registry. But these instructions didn't work for me in Windows 7. Only 3 of my 5 hard drives showed up in the list, and I couldn't even tell which was which!