How do I stop HDD from waking-up?

[kissenger]

My main drive is an SSD but I have a HDD as a secondary. The problem I have is that when I do certain things on my PC (e.g. a start-menu search) my HDD spins up and makes my desktop essentially freeze up for around 10 seconds. This is a bit annoying and I was hoping to find a way to stop it from doing this.

I want it to spin up only when I navigate to it through Windows Explorer, or when I use a programme that access files on the drive (e.g. WMP, due to the fact that I have music files on the HDD). Is there any way to do this?

 

[wazza300]

in windows power saving profile,click change plan settings/change advanced plan settings and look for hdd and turn off the sleep/power saving for it

 

[kissenger]

in windows power saving profile,click change plan settings/change advanced plan settings and look for hdd and turn off the sleep/power saving for it

But won't that just mean it's on all the time? I don't really want that either. Ideally I want it to power down most of the time, and only open when I do very specific things with it.

 

[justalex81]

whenever it wakes up it will do this. best just to make it so that it never spins down. Yes it uses power but don't think it harms the drive

 

[wazza300]

that's what the freezing is

its waking the hdd from sleep/power saving,my storage hdd does it

to turn it off means the hdd spins all the time