Added a New Drive Just for Files - How to Turn it off From Constantly Running

Need to change your Power Scheme and put this at a proper time of 10 to 15 mins as : Turn Off Hard Disk after: (On AC Power): 1 min  is not a correct number to be running.

& it contradicts with : Suspend after: (On AC Power):   Never

So are you saying to change my hard disk setting "turn off hard disk after" to 10 to 15 mins?

I thought that was just for the C drive (machine came with it set that way) and don't understand how that would relate to the E drive?

Thank you.

Need to change your Power Scheme and put this at a proper time of 10 to 15 mins as : Turn Off Hard Disk after: (On AC Power): 1 min  is not a correct number to be running.

 

& it contradicts with : Suspend after: (On AC Power):   Never

I went ahead and tried this, enabled the E disk, .......the problem noise returned.   I disabled the drive again for now...

Drive should not have noise.

See if turning off indexing of it works.   If you just filled it up it is indexing for search.

Drive should not have noise.

 

See if turning off indexing of it works.   If you just filled it up it is indexing for search.

I have tried that prior to starting this thread.......no luck.

Is the drive busy or is it just making noise  ??   RMA the drive......

Try Sysinternals under Process Utilities.  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

Powerful stuff if do not know what to do, read, do not do something you can not undo.

Run Seatools : https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/

Run Chkdsk /r on it.

Thank you for the reply and diagnostic links.  Although I have used those checks before in the past on other drives, etc., I don't think I want to run them now on this drive.

This drive, working fine, came directly out of my Windows 10 XPS8500 into this Windows 11 XPS8960.  I don't think anything is wrong with the drive.  I think it is just a setting in Windows 11 that needs to be changed.  Windows 11 is new to me, so I'll eventually get to it.

The drive, when I watch Resource Monitor, isn't really doing anything much while using the computer, but after sitting for a few minutes and doing nothing with the computer, allowing the computer to go into Standby, the drive then ramps up and is noisy.  It's not crazy loud, just enough to be annoying.  If I move the mouse or use the keyboard to take the machine out of standby it stops immediately, Resource Monitor drops off.  

The other Seagate HDD that came with this new machine is not acting like the Seagate HDD that I added, so that makes me think that its' settings arrived correctly, so I have been trying to compare the two to see what is different.

Having the drive disabled and quiet in the meantime is working so I don't have to listen to it.

Sysinternals would tell you what is going on.

Was this a bootable drive before ? 

If so it should have been formatted and all 3 partitions merged to 1.  UEFI, System and C: into another drive letter.

Drive is fighting with the other Boot Drive Win11 would be the issue if above is correct.

Did you move your swap file to it or anything else might have done ?

You say you moved it but not what the drive did in the old system.   Boot drive as per above or a storage drive. 

If a storage drive others here would know some commands to throw at it to see what is going on.

It was not a bootable drive before, as I pointed out in my original post - just a data drive not used much.

Did not do anything to the drive.  Just installed it into an open slot on the new machine.

I'm still curious if anyone can tell me if leaving a data drive that is not used much disabled would actually be a good thing, or if that for some reason this would not be good practice?  So far I like it being disabled.

It would be a good thing as it would avoid ransomware infection that encrypts all drives

I was thinking the same thing.  Similar to my external backup drives that I disconnect entirely after a backup.

I have a resolution to this problem and thought I'd post it here for future users:

1.  I contacted Seagate via chat and explained that I had a internal HDD for files that I moved from a Windows 10 machine to a new Windows 11 machine that would ramp up to 100% disk usage and stay there after the system sat idle (for about 7 minutes).

2.  Seagate recommended reformatting the problem HDD on the new Windows 11 machine.

3.  Before reformatting, I made a backup of the files on the problem HDD to another external usb HDD (I just used copy/paste).

4.  After the copy/paste was completed, I noticed the problem internal HDD was no longer ramping up to 100% disk usage.

5.  It's been over a week now, I've NOT reformatted the problem HDD or changed anything, and the 100% disk usage problem has resolved. 

Something must have changed when I did the copy/paste.