2006-10-14 13:16:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
If you are concerned about the drive spinning all the time, simply disconnect the power plug and the IDE cable to the drive. Only plug it back in before you turn on the computer to do your backups. This is not a bad practice, if the computer experiences an electrical catastrophe of some type then the drive that is unplugged won't be harmed.
2006-10-14 15:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably - unless you have your power management enabled to spin down disks after x minutes.
Do you KNOW if you have two physical drives or is it a C: partition and a D: partition - partitions are on the same physical drive and are just logically broken up so it appears there are two drives.
2006-10-14 20:19:16 · answer #2 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a decent drive then it only spins when you are accessing it or have very recently accessed it. It should "sleep" when it is not being used. If it is spinning constantly when you are not using it at all then you might check it for a bad sector.
2006-10-14 20:20:34 · answer #3 · answered by guruMama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely you really only have one physical drive partitioned into 2 that appear as 2 drives in your my computer folder.
2006-10-14 20:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by dkrjr66 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have up to 4 Primary Partitions
2006-10-15 22:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it should be spinning all the time.
2006-10-14 20:21:50 · answer #6 · answered by Sebas B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only when you are using files from it
2006-10-14 20:19:01 · answer #7 · answered by Ruth Less RN 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-10-14 20:19:58 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Cassie ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋