DriveAlive bat startup

[teckneeculler]

I have a 6TB USB storage drive.
Last April I asked you guys how to best utilize a small free app called DriveAlive to startup and shutdown that drive.

(DriveAlive, together with many other great little apps, can be found here: Miles Ahead's Windows Downloads)

TheDeerDude replied:

I'm thinking, a batch file would do the job - located in the same directory as drivealive, but not neccessarily.
That, and maybe task scheduler would help you accomplish what you're aiming for?

Does drivealive run under its own process? e.g. drivealive.exe?

You could have

@echo off
drivealive x:

to start it, and use taskkill to end it

@echo off
   taskkill /f /im drivealive.exe

These bats worked fine until a recent system crash and rebuild, forcing me to reinstall everything, including DriveAlive.

I have it sorta working again, but there's a small oddity I'd like to fix. On first run of the Start bat, an empty command window pops up. Unless I 'x' it shut, it remains there for five minutes and then disappears.

I've tried adding exit and cls to the command but neither of those shut the box.

Suggestions welcomed.

PS: DriveAlive works by writing 'drive_alive_dummy.txt' to the root of the 6TB drive. Five minutes later it deletes the text file. Five minutes after that it writes 'drive_alive_dummy.txt' again. And so on, ad infinitum, unless the Stop bat is run. The command line box disappears after five minutes, apparently coinciding with the removal of the first textfile, and doesn't appear again.
PPS: When the Stop bat is run, there's no popup command box.

 

[Paul Black]

I have it sorta working again, but there's a small oddity I'd like to fix. On first run of the Start bat, an empty command window pops up. Unless I 'x' it shut, it remains there for five minutes and then disappears.

I've tried adding exit and cls to the command but neither of those shut the box.

[1] Is that all of the .bat code?
[2] What is shown in the Title of the cmd Window that pops up?

 

[teckneeculler]

Thanks, Paul Black.
[1] Well, yeah. That's what the TheDeerDude said to do.
[2] And the title of the command box is 'start.bat - Shortcut'

The text in the start .bat is:

@echo off
DriveAlive M:

M being the letter I allocated to my movies USB hdd.