Windows 10: Hard drives with PUIS set to have power up in standby.

Hello is there a way to enable a PUIS drive to spin up?


I was able to do this only with using a system having it hot swapped to a SATA cable on the windows device. HDPARM did not work I had to use a VM of older dos boot disks to get to the amazing older ATA commands. Is there a ATA command set option under administrator log in to work with drives like this?


I do not want to go threw all of this to just spin up a PUIS drive I even checked under the hard drive setting once it was powered. We used drives like this all the time in data centers. What if we need data off one for cyber security? I cant find a PUIS setting anywhere.


I had to boot the other device that was able to power up the PUIS drive then hot plug the sata cable then format it, offline it boot up a VM with help from https://datarecovery.com/rd/how-to-unlock-dvr-hard-drives-for-normal-use-directv-dish-network/ to do this, I used a older dos era boot disk and was able to disable PUIS. I just wanted extra space from a older drive I have in a non useable DVR in the garage to use for storing VMs for educational use.









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Overclock your hard drive!!!

Heres a much easier hack that I realized quite a few years ago that really does work!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Hard drive with molex power connection.
• PSU with more than 1 strand that has molex plugs on it.
• Wire strippers, soldering iron if you're fancy, electrical tape if you're not.

STEPS:

• Take the strand of connectors from your PSU, and decide which one will be the donator for this overclocking adventure.
• Cut the yellow and orange cables, then twist them together.
• Find the power connector you've chosen as the overclocking connector, and release the orange cable from the connector. Now use your preferred method to bind them together, then place it back together.
• Plug in a drive and feel the speed!

Congratulations! You've just overclocked your hard drive!

 

Overclock your hard drive!!!

Wut =D

what is that supposed to accomplish?

 

External Hard Drive Power Off?

I also have a WD 2TB My Passport. If the "USB Standby Power at S4/S5" setting in the BIOS is enabled the external HD's light will continue to blink after a shutdown.