Disabling hard disk power management

[Berserker]

Is there any way to gain access to hard disk advanced power management settings from Windows? From Linux, I could use hdparm, but there doesn't seem to be anything for Windows.

Specifically I need to stop the hard disk heads from retracting as it's slowly eating the drive (I had this problem on my previous laptop too).

 

[Berserker]

APM is the number I need to change. I'll see if setting Windows to 'never' helps, but from memory I don't think it does.

Thanks!

PS - This issue will go away anyway if I succumb to the temptation to get a Vertex 2E. Damn you this week only!