Windows 10: How to stop auto turn off hard disk spining?

Hello,


My secondary hard disk which is an hard disk not SSD it stops spinning automatically after about a minute ... a sound is heard from it as when I turned off


I want to stop this feature in windows 10 !


Every time when I access a file from it, it takes about 1-2 seconds to start a sound is heard that starts rotating the discs


It is very annoying because sometimes it blocks cursive application functionality...

Even if I set to 0 "Turn off Hard disk" in "Power option", nothing happens..., also I tried to set at 60 minutes or something, but the result is same, hard disk stop running after about one minute...

I want the hard drive to run continuously, without stopping!


Thanks in advance!

Silviu

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external hard disk problem

my hard disk is spining but light is not blinking and it also undetectable on my computer. what is the probable solution?

 

External Hard disk contents are not visible.

Hi Pranoti,

For us to narrow down your concern with your external hard disk, we would like to know the following:

• Were there any changes made on your computer prior to the issue (e.g., updates, software installation)?
• To make sure that we have not missed on anything, what troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• Do you hear any clicking sound when connecting your hard disk?

In the meantime, we suggest that you update all your device driver.

We look forward to your response.

 

Turning Off Hard Disk

If I set my power options to:
Turn off Hard Disk
(after x amount of minutes)

Turn off Moniter
(also after so many minutes)

What is the difference between that and setting the pc to sleep mode?

I ask because a number of times, coming out of sleep ... it doesn't!

The HD will click and then nothing!
Takes a hard shutdown and reboot to get running again!

Believe me, I've done every work-a-round, (for the last six months) and tried every suggestion in trying to fix this headache and nothing has worked!

Searching, this appears to be a problem with Windows 10 that a lot of folks have been having.
Some have solved the problem while others have not.

Seems that no one solution is a fix for everyone.

I've disabled hybrid and hibernate using only sleep.
Re-enabled hibernate with sleep disabled ... but the problem still exists!

And yes, I've run every chk disk and troubleshooter that I can find and ... nothing!


I figure that allowing the disk to go into idle and having the monitor shut down is the only step that I have left?

My concern is .. I don't want to shut down the pc every time I have something else that I need to do but ... I also don't want to risk something like a cooling fan going bad and my hard disk burning up when I'm not around!

Thanks in advance everyone!!

This is a snapshot of my system ...