However I still need to spin it down, the moment I wish for itĪnd I started to research that second part, but so far no luck. I am now able to unmount the noisy drive thus forbid access to it by any software, including the operating system. However there is one small catch: these BATs have to be run as Administrator This name stays constant in between resets, so once a BAT is written down, it will work every time Above each is its name in that gibberish format, which can be selected and copied. Just run in the Command Prompt Īnd scroll down to the list of drives. And where to that name from? With the mountvol tool of course. Where all those # are he name of your drive in your system. So a BAT for unmounting of drive which has letter X asigned to it goes like thisīut a BAT for mounting it back goes like this īut at least I managed to utilize the mountvol command. As it is the user that is to decide when the sleep / unmount happens and unhappens. Even after uninstalling, the problem with the drive constantly going to sleep is still present But the drive was now constantly being put to sleep while I could not unmount it. Unfortunately after the reset the system did not start up. I did put the drive in question to sleep. I tried another free software called HotSwap! Īns so I will have to return in a few weeks to this topic and to the quest of finding a way to turn off a drive for good, with some script / shortcut But this is an expedient, as when the winter come it will be much quieter in my neighborhood- and that drive in that box is audible to some extent even now. It works for now because it is a summer and a lot of noise is coming from the outside world. What I did instead was to take my 10000RPM HDD out from a box that made it practically inaudible and put in it that noisy drive, while replacing the 10000RPM with yet another affordable SSD. As for the SSDs- there are almost no big ones like that and those few that exist costs more than what I earn in a year And even if I did have I would still not buy a new one because the prices are like from 2016. Unfortunately I am unable to upgrade from that noisy drive in question, as I need a bigger and quicker one- because I need at least 12TB and I do not happen to have so much money for such HDD. ![]() In a matter of fact I took that approach as a workaround. Or why you don't replace your HDD with a silent SSD? So does anyone know of other software / methods for turning off and on of hard disk drives at a moments demand of the user? And when laying on a bed I would have to literally take that disk to it with me- and then my wireless mouse might get jealous and bite it or the disk for doing so without her consent But in order to utilize that workaround I would have to have that disk on a desk and that would bring even more noise during the time that it would be connected. The second one is to leave the area of software and just physically disconnect the drive via a cable. And that totally disrupts my elaborated modus operandi of backup software working in the background. ![]() The first is the The option in Windows available at Settings > System > Power & Sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced plan settings > Hard disk > Turn off hard disk after which allows to set a fixed amount of time for it- but not for each of the drives but for all of them all together. I have two other solutions, both of which are unacceptable for me. I might take another shoot at it but only as a last resort measure I also tried using back then on Windows 7 via Command Prompt the mountvol from a BAT file, but could not get it to work according to my needs. And those issues I have researched, and there are already reported by other users on the forum of revoSleep, together with a suggestion of solution of using the newest 32 bit version instead of 圆4 And that latter one is also truth for the older version. The old version allows me only to turn the drive off but not dismount it anymore, while a new one 0.3.0 allows me to do both, but some time totally ignores my commands totally or discards them after few minutes of silence. Although to be fare, I have not yet researched that error Īs for revoSleep, it now works half way. Upgrading to HDDScan 4.0 change only this that now I get a massage saying " Access violation at address 00407789 in module HDDScan.exe'. And it was much betterīut now on Windows 10 HDDScan 3.3 do not even opens. But then I discovered another freeware software called revoSleep 0.2.4 beta. On Windows 7 I used to use freeware HDDScan 3.3. And I need to turn off a SATA HDD, so that I will have silence coming out from using SDDs and passive-inaudible within my PC I recently moved to a clean installation of Windows 10 from Windows 7.
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