Prevent Hard Disk From Going to Sleep in Windows 11/10 [Solution]
24Prevent Hard Disk From Going to Sleep in Windows 11/10 [Solution]
Troubleshooting when external drives sleep too often or irregularly, or do not wake up properly in Windows.
In this tutorial, we will see how you can prevent your primary, secondary, or an external hard disk drive or USB from going to sleep on a Windows 11/10/8/7 computer. You do not want your external hard disk going to sleep, and yet you find that at times it goes into Sleep mode. Sleep is a power-saving state that lets you quickly resume full-power operation when you want to start working again.
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How to Prevent Hard Disk from going to Sleep in Windows 10: It is possible that after the recent Windows 10 update, you may notice that your hard disk turns off after a specific period of inactivity. This is done in order to save battery which in turns improves the battery life of your PC. This setting is configured using “Turn off hard disk after” setting in Power Options which lets users set a specified time (of inactivity) after which the hard disk will power down. This setting doesn’t affect SSD and once the system is brought back from the sleep state, it will take some time for the hard disk to turn ON before you will be able to access it.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.