Windows 10: external hard drive spins up randomly. How to find trigger?
Discus and support external hard drive spins up randomly. How to find trigger? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; i want to find out what triggers my external hard drives to spin up at random times. Is there a tool to find out what triggers this? I have defrag... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by link626, Feb 3, 2021.
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