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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Dust on February 20, 2010, 01:28:50 am

Title: Completely disable a hard drive in Windows 7
Post by: Dust on February 20, 2010, 01:28:50 am

One of my hard drives keeps freezing my computer and then it clicks and everything starts responding again once it clicks. I want to find out which hard drive is clicking. I have all but my boot hard drive disabled in my bios but windows still has them listed. I basically want to prevent windows from using the drive so I can use trial and error to find which drive is clicking.

Can I do this?
I think this would be easier than unhooking each drive separately from my power supply because my case sucks because the inputs on my hard drives (for cables) are pointing towards the PCI cards which makes it a pain to do anything with the hard drives.

Thanks.

Title: Completely disable a hard drive in Windows 7
Post by: Mama Luigi on February 25, 2010, 12:50:33 am

Sorry for the late response... didn't see your topic.

Right click on 'Computer' and click 'Manage'. Under the 'System Tools' selection on the left, click 'Device Manager'.  Under 'Disk Drives', you can find your hard drive, right click and disable it.