vci Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 in my main system i have 2*250GB sata disks to save all the stuff I havethese hard drives need much power and I used to power them down (hdd doze mode// hdd standby)to ensure the life expectancy I dont want to start and stop them every 5 minutes (I only access them once or twice a day)but some programs power up these hard drives when they start, vmware e.g.I HATE THAT! because those startups lower the hdds life expectancy ... someone knows a way to prevent programs powering up hard drives?or any software tool where you can control startup/standby? (the windows power options are not very good ...)thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender341 Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 is the VMware virtual HD on that drive? if so that would be the problem. other than that i don't know what to tell you, i think you can access the a programs access rights in the regedit, or using gpedit.msc if you have pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalfrost Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 Well have the same problem, VMWare and all old DOS programs make my harddrives spin up. Sometimes they also randomly startup by themselfes. I haven't found a solution to this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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