{"id":15900,"date":"2020-05-29T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2020-05-29T05:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:01:31","slug":"prevent-windows-from-turning-off-hard-drive-after-idle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/prevent-windows-from-turning-off-hard-drive-after-idle\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Windows from Turning off Hard Drive after Idle"},"content":{"rendered":"

By default, Windows will automatically turn off your hard drive after 20 minutes of idle time. This can help save energy and extend a laptop’s battery life. When you try to access a hard disk that is turned off, you will notice a slight delay for the drive to spin back up. Constantly spinning down\/up can reduce the life of the hard disk, so I recommend you leave the drive spinning all the time, or set the drive to turn off after a longer period (one or two hours) of inactivity. In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 methods to prevent Windows from turning off hard drive after idle.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Prevent Turning off Hard Drive via Power Options<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows logo key + R to open the Run box. Type the following and hit Enter to open the Power Options window<\/a>.
    \ncontrol.exe powercfg.cpl,,3<\/code><\/p>\n

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  2. Expand Hard disk<\/strong> and Turn off hard disk after<\/strong>, change the value to 0 and click OK<\/strong>.\n

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    Your hard drive will never fall into sleep after idle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Prevent Turning off Hard Drive via Command Prompt or PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Command Prompt<\/a> or PowerShell<\/a> as administrator.\n

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    2. Run the following commands one by one, replacing “seconds_of_idle<\/code>” with 0.\n

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      powercfg \/SETDCVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT 0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442 6738e2c4-e8a5-4a42-b16a-e040e769756e seconds_of_idle<\/p>\n

      powercfg \/SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT 0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442 6738e2c4-e8a5-4a42-b16a-e040e769756e seconds_of_idle<\/code>\n<\/li>\n

    3. When it’s done, your hard drive should keep spinning all the time and it never goes to sleep after idle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      By default, Windows will automatically turn off your hard drive after 20 minutes of idle time. This can help save energy and extend a laptop’s battery life. When you try to access a hard disk that is turned off, you will notice a slight delay for the drive to spin back up. Constantly spinning down\/up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[4476,4477,4475],"class_list":["post-15900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-stop-hard-drive-from-sleeping-windows-10","tag-turn-off-hard-disk-after-never","tag-turn-off-hard-drive-after-idle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}