I have two HD's, one an 80g WD (w/xp home) and a small 20g Maxor that has Win 98 on it and bootable if I tell Bios to boot from it.. Its only kept around because I have an old parallel scanner and an old drawing program that xp wants nothing to to with. OLD stuff.. 3.1 days..
This has worked just fine considering I HARDLY ever need to boot 98. But when I need to its works well and does the job.
What I'm woundering is, is there anyway within XP to spin it down? The bearings are failing and the whine is getting unbearable.
I've disabled it in device manager and it logically doesn't show, but it pysically spins. I thought after a reboot, xp would look at a disabled device and turn it off, but no go. (and yes I tried turn off drives in power managment after 3 min, but both go down, don't want that)
I,m douting theres a way without pulling the power to it which works but, ya know the hassel of it.. heh.
Its really no biggie to do as above but thought I'd ask.
