Software to power off hard drive

Now, in order to make sure that the disk is turned off, use the "disk manager" and make sure that the disconnected drive is "Off-line". As you can see, disconnect the second hard drive in Windows 10 Home is very simple and you can use the above described way any of you! In order to re-enable the disconnected hard disk, you will need to go into the "disk manager" by right-clicking on the disconnected disk to select "On the network" in the context menu.

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Having a program do it can lead to big problems. Plus when a program tries to access the disk, and it doesnt respond normally, you'll run into programs tossing errors, crashing, or the computer BSOD'ing again.

Software like HP's 3D DriveGuard system can park drive heads almost indefinitely without crashing the system. Granted that it's not exactly "On Demand" since it works based on hardware sensors that detect the system being moved, it is still not impossible to achieve this. The OP should look for similar software for his system provided his hardware supports it. It will achieve the same results without requiring human intervention.

I guess I phrased my request wrong. What I'm really looking for is a shortcut, keystroke, something, to invoke the standard Windows 7 "turn off hard disk" event. My 2nd hard drive turns itself off all the time, and if it needs to wake up Winamp song start for example , the app just waits a few seconds, and eventually it gets its data. I dont want to wait X number of minutes for the Power Option setting to take effect. If I'm going to be moving my laptop around, it's going to be an on-demand thing, and I want to be able to do the same to my mechanical hard drive.

Actually, my dad's a programmer, maybe I'll have him look into writing a tiny app to do what I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestions! Especially the magnet! I'm not going to be willy nilly stopping the drive all the time, and typically I know when something is accessing the drive don't get me started on the safely remove hardware "drive is being accessed" window.

Thinking about the accessing while trying to turn it off issue If there IS an access, there should be a red light, and the name of the process accessing the drive in real time.