Hard disk keeps spinning up - please help

[saiku]

Wouldnt be a big problem except that everything pauses for a couple of seconds...even as I typed the message title, i could hear the hard disk (maxtor 200 GB) spin up ....right here for 2 seconds ....i hear a whine as the disk spins up...this has started happening in the last week or so (running vista 32 bit on core 2 duo e6400 with 2 gb ram and a 8800 GTS 640MB).
This is especially annoying while gaming since I cant do anything for a couple of seconds every 2 minutes. This is baffling to me. My hard disk is defragged every week.

Any ideas ? Please help

Thanks

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: saiku
Wouldnt be a big problem except that everything pauses for a couple of seconds...even as I typed the message title, i could hear the hard disk (maxtor 200 GB) spin up ....right here for 2 seconds ....i hear a whine as the disk spins up...this has started happening in the last week or so (running vista 32 bit on core 2 duo e6400 with 2 gb ram and a 8800 GTS 640MB).
This is especially annoying while gaming since I cant do anything for a couple of seconds every 2 minutes. This is baffling to me. My hard disk is defragged every week.

Any ideas ? Please help

Thanks

Does it happen in safe mode?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Turn off power savings. It causes the drive to spin down, then something like your index service wakes it

 

[saiku]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Turn off power savings. It causes the drive to spin down, then something like your index service wakes it

Ahh...I hope thats the ticket. I will try it as soon as I get home today and post my results. Thanks!

 

[saiku]

That was indeed the ticket. Thanks Radicl. For others who might run into this, you have to dig through a set of power saving settings. There is one specifically for hard drive power usage. I turned it to its most inefficient and lo and behold..no more spin up !