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amwus · #1 Post by **amwus** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:38 pm

Hi all !

Is it possible to stand by the hard drive to make it more quite ? Under Linux, it was possible, but i don't know how on windows.

I run xp on a thinkpad r52...

Thank you !

#2 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:47 pm

You can right-click anywhere on the desktop, select Properties, then go into Screen Saver/Power?Power Schemes, and set the hard disk to switch off after e.g. 5 minutes of non-use.

amwus · #3 Post by **amwus** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:29 am

yes i dit it but it never stand by the disk... Strange... In ubuntu, laptop-mode did it very well so i guess it is possible here...

#4 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:20 am

What do you want to achieve, "stand by the disk" is not exactly an English expression.
Try it in Dutch if needed.

iannis · #5 Post by **iannis** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:12 am

i think this is because it has processes or programs writing, reading in the background.
When you have killed all of these, wich you don't need, it might go into sleep
Search on the forum, many posts about it already excist, harddrive activity, constantly accesing harddisk blablabla

amwus · #6 Post by **amwus** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:02 pm

sorry for my bad english

What i mean by "stand by the hard drive", is to stop it always running. When i was running ubuntu, the hard drive stopped rotating, and the computer was very quiet !

But i can't set this functionality in windows xp. My hard drive is always running...

#7 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:57 pm

Try Ctrl-Alt-Del and check in the Processes tab which programs are running (only those that use CPU all the time). Anything non-MS should be checked.
You may have some Norton/Symantec junk running that keeps the HD going all the time.
Otherwise my method as in my first post here is your best option.

amwus · #8 Post by **amwus** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:39 am

Hi,

I don't use symantec programs... And in my processes tab, there are no process using cpu... just one strange, the best traduction is "inactive system process" (it's in french on my computer). In the row "cpu", it always shows about 90-95. And all the other processes show 00...

What does it meand ?

Thank you !

#9 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:50 am

That is the System Idle Process, which keeps the CPU cool when there is no other process.

You should check your BIOS settings, that it allows hard disk powerdown, if the Screen Saver/Power does not work.

amwus · #10 Post by **amwus** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:30 am

Hey it works now ! I removed my oodefrag service wich was accessing disk and it works well !

Thank you for the tips

#11 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:51 am

Glad you got it going.

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