Hello there.
As the title says - when I close the lid on my lenovo y50 my external harddrive is still on - I only store large files and games on there. When I don't use the drive sometime, it goes into idle mode which is fine, but however, when I close the lid on my PC the drive is active. - I have seen on the power options under "Turn off harddisk after:" and both battery and power is set to 20 minutes.
There is no system files or anything related to windows on the drive.
Is there anyway I can make the external harddrive go into standby as my computer does?
External HDD: WD elements 2TB USB 3.0
Windows 8.1
Cheers
As the title says - when I close the lid on my lenovo y50 my external harddrive is still on - I only store large files and games on there. When I don't use the drive sometime, it goes into idle mode which is fine, but however, when I close the lid on my PC the drive is active. - I have seen on the power options under "Turn off harddisk after:" and both battery and power is set to 20 minutes.
There is no system files or anything related to windows on the drive.
Is there anyway I can make the external harddrive go into standby as my computer does?
External HDD: WD elements 2TB USB 3.0
Windows 8.1
Cheers