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| Thread ID: 110489 | 2010-06-19 06:35:00 | Disable second HDD | Brucem (8688) | Press F1 |
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| 1111561 | 2010-06-19 06:35:00 | I have 2 Sata HDDs in my case. This because Norton Ghost claimed one to be failing. I used Western digital DLGDIAG on it, and it agreed that it was faulty. I transferred everything to a new HDD, unpartitioned the old one refomatted it, overwrote it with zeros, then reformatted it I retested it with DLGDiag, and it could find no faults. Both are still in the case and connected, and Norton Ghost doesn't like not backing it up. I have plenty of space for the foreable future, and to save opening the case I would like to disable it probably from BIOS, but can find no way. Can it be done? | Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1111562 | 2010-06-19 06:48:00 | See if you can change it to none or not installed (on the SATA connection its on), in the BIOS | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1111563 | 2010-06-19 10:47:00 | I don't think there is a Bios setting that will work as motherboards auto detect Hard Disks these days. If you want it totally powered off, best way is open the case and remove the power cable. If you just want it invisible you can go to Drive Manager and right click on the drive and remove the drive letter |
McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1111564 | 2010-06-20 22:28:00 | Perhaps disable Nortons instead! | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1111565 | 2010-06-21 08:54:00 | I paid $90 for Norton 12 Backup and have only installed it twice:- Finds faults with drives etc. Likes to take over with auto updates etc. Bloated program. Bloated files Slow Ditch the Norton & keep the drive. Enable SMART drive in Bios to warn you of trouble. Use Acronis for backups & Microsoft Security for AV & malware. |
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