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How to keep external USB drives from sleeping (Windows 7)
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Possible Duplicate: How to setup Windows to not put my external drive to sleep? I have an HP Windows 7 box and a few various brands of external USB drives. One major annoyance of this set up has been that these drives will go to sleep every ten minutes. That causes really annoying delays whenever I…
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Fix for: How to keep external USB drives from sleeping (Windows 7)
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Go into the Power Options in Control Panel, then click on "Change Plan Settings" for your plan, then there should be an option "Change advanced power settings", then look under the "Hard Disk" and "USB Settings" areas. This one may not be the actual…
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