Preacher April 19, 2012 Share Preacher Member April 19, 2012 For the last year I have been annoyed by my secondary hard drive taking 10-15 seconds to wake up every time I access it. I did some research a while back and through that came to the conclusion that it was the "Green Drive" that I got. Turns out it's a power setting. To stop it from sleeping go to Control panel/ power settings/ then click change plan settings/ advanced power settings / choose the drop down under hard drives and change it to never. voila! No more sleepy drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest April 19, 2012 Share lousiest Member April 19, 2012 Yup Got to love those Green drives. All my external WD drives had Greens in them -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher April 20, 2012 Author Share Preacher Member April 20, 2012 Once I was told it was the drive I looked no further thinking I was screwed. It wasn't until I threw an old Maxtor 500 gb drive into my son's system that I saw it was all 2nd hard drives that went to sleep in Windows 7. I'm just happy I fixed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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