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    G53SW hard drive question

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Spear13, Jan 25, 2012.

  1. Spear13

    Spear13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey everyone, ive had my laptop for a few months now, and installed windows 7 on an ssd drive. I only recently noticed that the 750GB hard drive likes to spin itself up every 30 seconds or so, just to shut down after a minute. Disabling the second SATA Hard drive interface does nothing, the HD spins at full speed ALL the time in that case. I have all of my games and large programs installed on the second hard drive, although it spins up randomly even when just casually browsing the web.

    Does anyone know why this occurs? I'd like to be able to completely disable the second disk and just run off the ssd to conserve battery if I wanted to.


    thanks!
     
    Spear13, Jan 25, 2012
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    Spear13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone????
     
    Spear13, Jan 27, 2012
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    It must have something accessing it, try something like filemon to find open handles on the drive letter of your HDD and the associated process. Just add a filter for that drive letter and watch it until the drive spins.
     
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    Spear13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    filemon shows absolutely nothing, no matter what settings i use. I turned off Indexing and that seemed to help a little, it hasn't spun up in 5 minutes.

    Do you have any idea why the secondary drive is still spinning even though it is disabled in the bios? maybe it just denies Windows access to the drive, but it shouldn't keep it spun up 24/7 right?
     
    Spear13, Jan 27, 2012
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    Do you have Intel RST driver installed?
     
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    Spear13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    yes, i do, 10.8.0.1003

    Turns out truecrypt was trying to access a large volume on the drive even though i wasn't accessing it or even mounted. Now it spins down fine, and the laptop is eerily silent :D

    Now i just have to figure out why disabling it in BIOS keeps spinning it up...
     
    Spear13, Jan 27, 2012
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