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Turning off drive E

Name: Rick
Date: August 27, 2002 at 12:25:24 Pacific

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Win XP lets you time out the hard drives, but my NOISY backup drive E (IDE)turns back on when drive C spins back up. I need to be able to turn off JUST drive E either automatically or on command (or put a switch on its power leads!). Any ideas?

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