Windows 10: [HELP] Possible to prevent every program from hanging when a USB drive is waking up?

Whenever I have to work with a USB drive that is sleeping, every program comes to a halt for a few seconds while the USB drive wakes up.

For example If I try download a file in Firefox to a sleeping USB drive, every Firefox tab, even every Windows Explorer window becomes inaccessible.

Similarly, if I try to open a file in a sleeping USB drive, everything else that is not related to that window becomes inaccessible.

Is there any way to prevent this?

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Hi Gregory,

It's possible that some settings are preventing your computer from waking up after sleep mode. We'd like to learn more about your concern so that we could provide the proper resolution. We just have a few questions for you:

• Are you using a third-party antivirus program?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?