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    Power off multiple hard drives Win7?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Rodster, Jul 30, 2011.

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    Rodster Merica

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    Windows 7 power manager is not turning off my hard drives after the timeout even if I change it from 20 mins to 5 mins they stay running. I have 4 drives in my gaming rig. I only need the boot disk running. Is their a utility to accomplish this? :)
     
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    The OS typically won't shutdown a drive that has open file handles/open files/open applications. This would include things like on-demand virus checkers.

    Make sure that none of your apps are in any way looking at the other hard drives.

    Grab something like the sysinternals monitoring tools to see if anything is accessing your drives.
     
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    Thanks Newsposter, tracked it down to EasyBCD running. Once it launches it goes out and reads the bootloader and checks the status of each drive partition. Once I closed the program and rebooted all my drives with the exception of the boot drive all powered off with the time limit I set in power options. :)
     
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