How to turn off the hard drive of the computer for a while? Such an action may be required, for example, when installing a second EFI-Windows systems. If on the second media of a computer operating in the BIOS UEFI, install Windows, it will not have its own boot EFI- section. And it will be dependent on the system bootloader on the first media. But if the first disk with system partitions is detached, the second Windows during its installation will create all the partitions necessary for offline startup.
And without problems it will be able to start if the bootloader of the first system is damaged. Or, perhaps, the hard disk needs to be made temporarily invisible only in the environment of the current operating system, so that no one needs access to it.
Let us consider below how these and similar questions are solved.
To prevent the user data media from being temporarily displayed in the operating system environment, you can disable it in the system device manager. Select it in the section "Disk Devices", in the context menu, specify the shutdown.
Everything is now operated SSD or HDD will no longer be displayed in Windows Explorer, nor in third party programs ah with data access. The system can be turned off, rebooted - the disconnected media will not turn on without our direct participation.
You can turn it on the other way around.
2. Disk management
V Windows environment there is another place where you can deactivate information devices so that they do not appear in the operating system environment and cannot be accessed using programs.
This is the Disk Management Console.
In her window on the right SSD or HDD call the context menu, click "Offline".
To turn it on, do the reverse procedure - click .
How to disable a hard drive outside the operating system environment? So that, as mentioned above, when installing a second Windows, it has its own bootloader on, respectively, the second medium. And, perhaps, we are talking about experiments with the installation MacOS or Chrome OS when it is better to remove unnecessary information devices with valuable data so as not to mistakenly format them or remove their markup along with the content. In this case, a shutdown is required either in BIOS, or hardware.
3. BIOS
The ability to disable any of the computer information devices can be implemented in BIOS. Or maybe not implemented. Here you need to understand in each individual case. If such a possibility BIOS present, it is usually located in the peripheral settings sections - SATA- or IDE-devices. You must select the desired media among the connected devices and set its value to the position "Disabled".
4. Hardware disconnect
100% - but a worker, he is universal way deactivation SSD or HDD– disconnection SATA- flat cable or power cable (optional) inside system block PC or laptop case.
V operating systems Windows XP, Vista, Linux and Mac OS X can be disabled optical drives, virtual and local drives, volumes. This article will tell you how to do it.
Your actions
Method 1 of 4: Disable a drive through Disk Management in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
Open the Computer Management window. Click Start.
In Windows XP, click "Run" and in the window that opens, enter the compmgmt command. msc.
V Windows Vista or Windows 7, type the command in the search box and press Enter, and then in the search results, press compmgmt. You can also type a command and press Enter.
In the Computer Management window that opens, click Disk Management (in the left pane of the window).
Select a drive. Click right click mouse over the drive you want to disable.
From the menu that opens, select "Change Drive Letter or Drive Path".
Disconnect the disk. Select the drive and click Remove.
Press OK (to confirm disable/delete).
Close the Computer Management window.
Method 2 of 4: Dismount a volume (attached to a folder) via the command line in Windows
Note: This method works with any volumes (even those that don't exist).
Open a command prompt. Click Start.
In Windows XP, click "Run" and in the window that opens, enter the cmd command.
On Windows Vista or Windows 7, type cmd in the search box and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter (to run command line with administrative rights).
Disable the volume. Enter the mountvol Path /d command, where Path is the path to the folder (to which the volume is attached).
Method 3 of 4: Disconnecting a disk in Linux
- Open the console. To do this, in the Linux GUI, press Ctrl + Alt + F1.
- Alternatively, you can open a terminal (console) from System Tools.
- Disconnect the disk. Enter the umount /dev/partitionID command, where PartitionID is the ID of the disk to be removed.
Method 4 of 4: Disconnecting a disk in Mac OS X
- Disconnect the disk. Right-click on the disk and select "Eject" from the menu that opens.
- Or drag the icon of the disk to be disconnected to the Trash.
- If, when trying to disconnect a disk Linux system gives an error, identify the process using the disk. To do this, open a terminal and type the following command: lsof +D /mnt/windows. End such a process and disconnect the drive.
- Dismounting a volume does not delete the corresponding folder (or its contents).
- The umount disable command (on Linux) disables flash drives and CD/DWD drives. However, the command syntax is slightly different. For example, to unmount a CD, type umount /media/cdrom in a terminal.
Cautions
- Pay attention to the correct spelling of the command in Linux: UMOUNT, not UNMOUNT.
- Before removing the flash drive, be sure to unplug it. This guarantees you that when you remove the flash drive, you will not lose any data. On Linux, disable the flash drive using the above command. In Windows, right-click on the icon (on the taskbar) "Safely Remove Devices and Disks" and select "Eject".
Greetings, dear inquisitive readers! Today we will find out how to turn off the message “Windows has detected problems hard drive". Usually such a curse really indicates problems with your hard drive. In my case, it appeared after Windows installation on the HDD with a certain number of bad blocks and an unacceptably large value of attribute No. 5 (Reallocated Sectors Count) in SMART. We will analyze how to check the hard drive for errors separately, but now we will simply turn off this window so that it does not interfere with our work with its sudden appearances. Nevertheless, as soon as the opportunity arises, I recommend replacing the hard drive with a new one.
Let's go to the Group Policy Editor. To do this, press Win + R and write: gpedit.msc.
The Local Editor will open. group policy. Let's go to: Computer configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System-> Diagnostics -> Disk Diagnostics.
There we will find two parameters that we will deal with. Double-click on the first parameter and in the next window set the value to Disable. We press OK.
We will do the same with the second parameter. As a result, both options will have a state of Disabled.
And at the end, reboot. This window should not bother you anymore. But I still recommend replacing the hard drive as soon as possible, saving all your data beforehand.
The need to disable one of the hard drives, if there are several of them, it can become for various reasons. Naturally, this does not mean the hard drive on which Windows is installed, but an additional one used as a file storage. If we are talking about the safety of some important files stored on one of the hard drives, as an alternative, you can simply make partitions of such a drive invisible in order, for example, to restrict access to important information children or employees at work. In this case, using the functionality of the regular disk management utility or third-party programs, the letters are removed desired sections disk so that such partitions no longer appear in Windows Explorer, or file managers. Of course, this is not so reliable protection data, like encrypting it, but this is an easier method that will not add headaches if you lose your disk lock password. But there are also situations when the hard drive needs to be turned off not because of the safety of data, but, for example, because of the appearance of annoying clicks and squeaks during operation. Or another example - if the HDD overheats. In such cases, when there is a possibility that further work may harm the hard drive, it must be disconnected until a verdict from a service center specialist is issued on it.
How to turn off the hard drive? There are several ways to disable a problematic HDD: at the Windows level, at the BIOS level, and by hardware.
1. Disable HDD inside Windows
To disable the HDD, in a running Windows, you need to start the device manager. In its window, open the "Disk devices" branch, right-click on the problematic HDD and select the "Disable" menu item.
If the hard drive disconnected in this way needs to be turned on again in the future, we perform the reverse operation. In the dispatcher Windows devices on the disconnected HDD we call context menu and click on "Enable".
2. Disable HDD in BIOS
How to disable HDD in BIOS computer devices different, respectively, due to different versions BIOS. Properties of hard drives with the ability to disable them can be searched in the sections "Standard", "Advanced" or others dedicated to setting up components. In the properties of the problematic HDD, you must set the active option to disable it - "Disable", "None", "Not present", "Not installed", etc.
3. Hard Disable HDD
If the BIOS does not have the ability to disable a separate HDD without turning off its controller, this disk can be disabled by hardware. Hardware shutdown hard drives are held in the off state of the computer. To turn off a problematic hard drive, just disconnect its power cable.
If the hard drive overheats, when clicks, squeaks and similar problems appear, it is recommended to immediately carry out backup important data. If the HDD fails, service center it will be possible to specify only the question possible recovery disk, but not data recovery. First, this procedure is paid additionally. Secondly, data recovery in full is not always possible, even if experienced specialists take up the matter.
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Windows 10 has such a feature - if you do not use your computer for a while, the system not only turns off the monitor, but also disconnects disks over time. I never even used it previous versions Windows.
I don’t know what is more from this - benefit or harm, but on the Internet, I realized that it’s better all the same so that the system does not turn off the disks like that. You may have noticed this - when you returned to the computer, the hard drive makes a strange sound, this is the sound of a “startup”, so to speak.
In general, I don’t dare to say, but it seems that without this “switch off” hard drives will last longer.
The hard drive is the only mechanical device in the computer (except for the fans, of course) and it is harmed by frequent shutdowns, turns on, it should either work - or not. And transitions from one state to another are best minimized.
This is easy to do, you need to open the control panel:
And at the very bottom of the page (at least for me) there will be an item Power supply, select it:
Now you will have the power scheme of your choice here, in front of it, click Setting:
And here, by the way, I advise you to immediately set (if necessary) the screen off time and the time after which the computer will go into sleep mode when the computer is idle (that is, when no one uses it). Click on additional settings:
And now a window will open where you need to specify that the hard drive does not turn off by itself - to do this, set the time to zero and click the button OK:
After that, we save the changes:
That's all, I hope the problem is solved, and if not, then write in the comments!