Annoying Vista hard drive issue

[Gunny04]

My IDE storage hard drive periodically shuts down in vista when its not active, I can search the data on it etc, but when I open something it takes a second and fires it right back up, Where is the blasted setting to leave the drives on all the time? I think there was in XP but since I am new to vista I haven't a clue. I am running Vista Ultimate just so you know.

Gunny (Its annoying listening to my drive power up and down all the time)

[dcunning30]

Sounds like that energy saver stuff.  Look in the control panel for something to do with energy saver.  I know these features are well intentioned, but most of the features are more pain than they're worth.  They do make sense on a laptop running on batteries, but otherwise, it's a hassle.

[Gunny04]

I think I found it, Vista has some pretty good power saving modes, Inactive hard drives shut down after 20 minutes, I mean its a nice feature.... But it's probably hard on the drive, At first I thought the drive was fried (recently had a little accident with it) But when I pulled data from it, it fired up. Thanks for the responce!

Gunny