This is for a 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm drive, 3.5 inch, in a Sabrent enclosure. Is there a way to change the drive or enclosure setting in Windows 11 that will keep the drive from going to sleep when being used with the Wii? USB Loader GX locks up when you open the app if the hard drive has gone to sleep.
Looking for a way to stop hard drive in enclosure from going to sleep - USB Loader GX
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Unfortunately this is probably a property of either your enclosure's controller or the HDD's internal firmware. Spinning metal generally wants to sleep so that the physical components don't wear out as fast. There are software solutions for Windows/Linux/Macs that act as workarounds, but nothing built into or configurable directly on the drive.
That being said, whether or not USB Loaders GX should be crashing like that is a different matter entirely. Normally I would expect reading the filesystem to wake the disk, but I'm unfamiliar with whether a specific instruction needs to be sent to do so. I'll defer to someone more experienced with the software stack for more details regarding that.
That being said, whether or not USB Loaders GX should be crashing like that is a different matter entirely. Normally I would expect reading the filesystem to wake the disk, but I'm unfamiliar with whether a specific instruction needs to be sent to do so. I'll defer to someone more experienced with the software stack for more details regarding that.
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I know some drives will come with software from the manufacturer (or it can be downloaded from their website) and it allows u to disable sleep timer. Not necessarily applicable to all drives, but worth looking into
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