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Old 05-14-2010, 07:36 AM
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Windows spinning up external usb HD for no good reason
Hi all

I don't know if this is the best place to post this, my apologies if it isn't.

I've got an external WD usb hard drive that spins down after 10 minutes of inactivity. according to WD, there's no way to stop this.

The odd thing is that whenever my pc does pretty much anything, it spins up that drive, taking some 10 seconds.

If i use notepad to open a text file on the main OS drive, i have to wait for this drive to spin up.

I wrote a script to dump the time to a file on the external usb drive every 5 minutes and this keeps it spun up, but i'd rather just not have windows pester this drive at all.

To further complicate matters, another WD usb hd i have does not do this, but is definitely spun down most of the time.
So the OS feels differently about these two drives. I checked for system files/folders/etc on both drives, they're both just regular drives with no special folders other than system volume info and recycler. I'm as certain as one can be that i don't have a virus or any malware.

Any idea what's going on? My google-fu is weak today and i'm unable to find any relevant articles on what is going on.


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Old 05-14-2010, 09:18 AM
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No no idea...

Really - I don't know. but something I do know is that windows uses the drive with the most space free to download it's updates. maybe this drive has the most free space?
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Old 05-14-2010, 09:26 AM
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Most certainly not. I can see the updates on another drive.

What's more, why would that result in the drive being poked every time i want to do anything?

I think i'm just going to unplug the stupid thing and be done with it.
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Old 05-14-2010, 11:36 AM
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Have you excluded that drive from virus scanners, search indexers, background defragmenters, and the like?
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Old 05-14-2010, 11:44 AM
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Yup, i turn off all of that stuff on all of my drives.

What's more, why that one drive, and not my other USB drive which is similar but newer?

Somewhere in windows, this drive is unique somehow. in some kind of magical "always look here for everything" path or some such. arg. Maybe i can change the drive letter and format it or something...
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Old 05-14-2010, 11:51 AM
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You could try using ProcMon to see who's touching that drive.
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Old 05-14-2010, 11:56 AM
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Not a bad idea!
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hey for grins I checked on mine jqs.exe was hitting my external drive a lot.
here's how you disable jqs.exe

http://techsalsa.com/what-is-jqsexe-...to-disable-it/
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Old 05-14-2010, 12:59 PM
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I'm wary of disabling jqs on a system that houses sage.
Does anyone know of the ramifications?

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