how turn off hard disk spindle motor by windows command?

[Loay El Masry]

Dears

I have SSD for my boot windows drive , also I have other 1TB Hard disk in my laptop

I'm not using HDD all the time , But it generate a lot of heat and consume my Laptop battery when spindle motor running all the time even not used

how I can turn off hard disk spindle motor in case I don't use it
How I can run it again ?

I need windows command to do it

I try disk offline in diskpart command but not turn motor off

ANy idea about this ?

 

[clutchc]

There's no 'command' to turn off the motor. However, you can go to Control Panel/Power Options/Change Plan settings/Change Advanced Power Settings and set when you want to turn off the hard drive.

 

[Loay El Masry]

There's no 'command' to turn off the motor. However, you can go to Control Panel/Power Options/Change Plan settings/Change Advanced Power Settings and set when you want to turn off the hard drive.

I'm already did that , but this power saving apply on all drives in laptop include SSD and for sure this include OS files and windows 8 always read and write on SSD and this will never stop HDD spindle motor

I read that some guys talking about WMI called SetPowerState which control HDD individually
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5367065/spin-down-hard-disk-programmatically-on-windows

but it need some programming skills , i don't know more about scripts

 

[fzabkar]

Try experimenting with hdparm (Windows and Linux versions).

 

[Loay El Masry]

Try experimenting with hdparm (Windows and Linux versions).

Thanks so much @fzabkar

You saved me

I downloaded hdparm tool for windows from this link

https://sites.google.com/site/disablehddapm/


Then I used this command

turn off hard disk spindle motor : hdparm -Y hdb

To turn it on use this command : hdparm -y hdb

And it words good and i'm able to reduce heat and battery consumtion and able to use my HDD on demand

Thanks so much

 

[Skazzi]

One else tool that can do this job is "revoSleep": https://www.meinfach.net/revosleep/