USB External Hard Drive Spin Down

posted by  johnb (86)  14 months ago (www.vistax64.com)

Please, I have a question(s) about my external (USB) Maxtor Personal Storage
3200 Disk Drive and how to "re-enable" it to spin down after a fixed period
of time related to inactivity. When I initially installed the drive it did
spin down after a period of inactivity. It would, logically, only spin up if
you opened Explorer or when the Backup Utility started. I don't think I made
any changes to the OS that would cause this issue? Please see the following
list related to what I have checked so far.

1. I use the MS Backup utility inc