Controlling spin-down & spin-up?

This thread was originally posted by DN ).

In the original thread, I suggested:
You can try adjusting Recycle Bin properties to "Configure drives
independently" and "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin" for your
backup drive [partitions].

Currently I am using two hard disk drives divided into six
partitions total. One of the backup hard disk drive partition drive
letters was sandwiched between the main hard disk drive partition
drive letters, like this.

C (main HDD partition)
D (backup HDD partition)
E (main HDD partition)

Seems that the drive would spin up whenever I deleted
a file/whatever. Using Windows XP, the partition letters were
changed so that all of the backup hard disk drive partitions were at
the end of the letter chain, like this.

C (main HDD partition)
E (main HDD partition)
F (backup HDD partition)

Apparently that fixed the problem. Now the backup hard disk drive
stays asleep after it goes to sleep, seems the only exception is
when emptying the recycle bin (which is easy to do without).

If you don't have shortcuts/references pointing outside of drive C,
changing the letters is easy enough.





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