Vista - Ext HDD powering down

TriedandTested · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:51

Is there anyway to stop this? It's quite worrying hearing my external HDD clonk and go in to some sort of hibernation mode if not accessed for a while.

It's Lacie 250gb firewire if that helps.

Any ideas?

thepharcyde · 2 Mar 2007 at 11:28

Tried&Tested said:
Is there anyway to stop this? It's quite worrying hearing my external HDD clonk and go in to some sort of hibernation mode if not accessed for a while.

It's Lacie 250gb firewire if that helps.

Any ideas?

Funny its obviously a feature, as my backup drive has been doing this, leaving me worrying every time it was crashing!

I went into power options and played about in there. Switch the PC to max performance which should then disable it from doing this.

zytok · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:32

had the same issue with Vista shutting down my internal hard drive 1 hour into watching streamed DivX files on my wireless media player. Easy enough to disable in power settings but seemed odd to me as I presumed that Vista would know that something was using the hard drive.

Final8y · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:44

Vista also shutsdown hardrives when doing a reset which then takes 3 times as long to post as my 3 HD`s spin up one by one.

zetec452 · 2 Mar 2007 at 16:42

This happens in XP too.

gareth170 · 2 Mar 2007 at 21:32

Final8y said:
Vista also shutsdown hardrives when doing a reset which then takes 3 times as long to post as my 3 HD`s spin up one by one.

is your controller uli? if it is download the uli 2.20 drivers from here http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html then once you've installed it just reboot your pc then that'll fixs the problem.

TriedandTested · 3 Mar 2007 at 00:09

thepharcyde said:
Funny its obviously a feature, as my backup drive has been doing this, leaving me worrying every time it was crashing!

I went into power options and played about in there. Switch the PC to max performance which should then disable it from doing this.

Thank you. I've adjusted the advanced settings and will see how it goes.

deviousdragonuk · 5 Mar 2007 at 00:23

In the advanced power management area you can play about with powering off USB attached devices - i think it even gives you the option to be selective as to which you want to power down?

Deviousdragonuk