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Vista Control of Hard Drives

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hamltnh

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I upgraded to Vista Home Premium a week ago from XP Home. I set it up as dual-boot with XP and Vista on separate hard drives. I have a 3rd hard drive set aside for backups, so a total of 3 IDE hard drives and 1 DVD drive--no SATA drives. What has me stumped about Vista is that after booting up and usning the machine for 30 min. or so, I hear 1 and sometime 2 of the hard drives spin down. Depending on what I'm doing, I can hear them spin back up. I didn't know (and haven't found any refs.) to Vista turning off hard drives while a machine is up and running. I never had this happen with XP and when I boot in to XP it doesn't happen yet, so I don't think there is a HW problem. It appears to happen after the machine has been idle for a while Has anyone had this happen to them with Vista?? Is there a setting somewhere that controls this??

Configuration:
Asrock 775Dual-VSTA
Core 2 Duo 6400
2GB DDR2 RAM
ATI X800XT AGP Video Card
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Etc.
 
it just the power management options in vista that will spin the hdd when not being used. Windows Xp will do this as well. You just have to set it in the power management menu.
 
Thanks--I had it set for "High Performance", but hadn't bothered to check the Advanced Settings--sure enough the HDD's were set to spin down after 20 min. Thanks again....
 
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