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Dirk

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 91

How to use "Hard Disk Usage" for external drives?

How could I use "Hard Disk Usage"

for an external drive? For example when an external 3,5 HDD has a usage of less than 1 byte / s a bat file shall be started to not to let the drive go to hibernation / standby.

den4b

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Re: How to use "Hard Disk Usage" for external drives?

It's not possible at the moment to monitor usage of a specific hard drive.

However, to address your case you can just periodically write to a file on that hard disk to prevent it from going into sleep mode.

For example, you can setup Shutter like so:

Events:
1) Countdown: Wait 0:01:00

Actions:
1) Run Program: cmd /c "time /t > d:\temp.txt"
2) Utilities: Restart events

That basically writes the current time to "d:\temp.txt" file every 1 minute.

You can call other tools to write to the disk. This method uses native command prompt features, so it pops up a console window for 1 second every time its run, which can be hidden using HSTART tool.

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Dirk

Member

Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 91

Re: How to use "Hard Disk Usage" for external drives?

Alright, done, works perfectly.

Many thanks for your help. And thanks for HSTART.