Re: HDD Issue

On 2/9/2022 5:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I have a 10+ year old Dell that came with about 960 GB HDD. I have
> since added about 240 GB Kingston SSD to serve as C: and D: , and a
> about 500 GB external SSD to handle all the stuff that was on the 960
> HDD . The 960 HDD now serves no usefull purpose, yet continues to fire
> up at various odd times. How can I stop this ? I don't see anything in
> the BIOS. Running good old and well behaved Windows 7 BTW.

Stating what might be the overly obvious, if the drive serves no useful 
purpose, why not simply disconnect and/or remove it? Of course if you want 
to do some detective work it might be possible to examine the contents of 
the drive to see if some files are being updated during these power-up 
events and then find out why -- there could be some app or other set to use 
that useless drive. Or maybe go into disk management and remove the drive 
letter to see if it is then ignored by whatever is triggering it?

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