Question How to stop win7 from ejecting external hdd

[thePretender]

Lenovo thinkpad w530.

I replaced the dvd with a HDD.

Win7 keeps kicking it out after time, or coming back from logoff or screen save. I went through all the usual settings to prevent this. Most of the time, I just get a popup saying it could not eject because it is in use. This is because I try to leave an explorer window open at all times pointing to that drive, so i don't have to keep pulling out the drive and reinserting it to make it see it again.

when rebooting, or restarting, the drive is recognized immediately, just seems to happen when not in use.

Thanks for looking into this for me.

 

[hang-the-9]

Go into the options for that drive in Device Manager and turn off the power saving modes on it (it should be something like "don't allow the system to turn this off to save power").

 

[thePretender]

I remember a setting like that somewhere, but it is not in the device manager.
I'll keep looking, if I find it, i'll post it here.

 

[thePretender]

OK, went to dvice manager, and even down to the usb ports, and turned all those off as well, the system will still kick out the hdd (in the dvd slot)

Anyone have any other suggestions? thanks!!