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How To Wake Up My External Drive ??

  • 19-11-2009 4:54pm
    #1
    Mick Rice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭


    Any hints or help with this would be appreciated.

    I have a Western Digital 1tb external drive attached to my desktop in work. I regularly connect in from home using a remote desktop session but when I do the external drive has gone into sleep more or 'spun down', I presume to save power. My question is how to wake up that drive so that I can remotely access it.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    What's the exact model of the drive? Do you want to keep it's power saving features or would you be happy to see them disabled?


  • #3
    Mick Rice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭Mick Rice


    I've thrown away the box and the model isn't clearly shown on the drive casing. It's a WD Elements drive and the MDL code on the sticker on the back is WD10000EB035-01 if that helps.

    As regards the power saving I'm not that concerned with the power itself but I suppose I don't want to limit the life of the drive by having it spinning all day every day if that was a potential effect. I just don't know enough about drives.

    The ideal would be to know a command, or some other route, through device manager for instance, to wake it up on the two or three occasions a week where I need it remotely.

    having said that, if the only way to have access is to disable the power saving feature though I might have to go with that.


  • #4
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Please see this and this and let me know what you think.


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,216 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Im sure WD has an option in place to wake on LAN. It may just be disabled by default.

    edit: Oh, is this a MyBook World or a MyBook Essential? World edition allows you to direct connect and is all sorts of set up for this scenario.


  • #6
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Makes sense. Start with the simple stuff first, like is is configured to wake up in the first place. :)


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  • #7
    Mick Rice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭Mick Rice


    Folks,
    Thanks for the replies. As I'm running XP I don't think the first link applies, which appears to be XP specific. Also the drive wakes properly when I access it from the desktop, it's just that when it sleeps a remote connection doesn't wake it and it disappears from explorer completely. I had thought that trying to reopen a file that I know is based on the drive would be enough but I just get 'path not found' or similar. I've tried to explore the settings on the drive but can't see a 'wake on lan option' option or similar. Can anyone explain exacxtly where I should look. I've just been rooting around on the device properties under Computer Management/Disk Management - right click to bring up properties.

    Thanks,

    Mick.


  • #8
    cpu-dude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭cpu-dude


    Mick Rice wrote: »
    Folks,
    Thanks for the replies. As I'm running XP I don't think the first link applies, which appears to be XP specific. Also the drive wakes properly when I access it from the desktop, it's just that when it sleeps a remote connection doesn't wake it and it disappears from explorer completely. I had thought that trying to reopen a file that I know is based on the drive would be enough but I just get 'path not found' or similar. I've tried to explore the settings on the drive but can't see a 'wake on lan option' option or similar. Can anyone explain exacxtly where I should look. I've just been rooting around on the device properties under Computer Management/Disk Management - right click to bring up properties.

    Thanks,

    Mick.
    How about disabling the option where Windows disables a device to save power, it might be checked?

    usb-root-hub-properties.jpgusb-power-management.jpg


  • #9
    Mick Rice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭Mick Rice


    When I go into device manager I see USB Root Hub entries - do I do them all or try to identify the one specific to the device. For the moment I've unchecked them all - we have loads of electricity in here :-)


  • #10
    cpu-dude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭cpu-dude


    Mick Rice wrote: »
    When I go into device manager I see USB Root Hub entries - do I do them all or try to identify the one specific to the device. For the moment I've unchecked them all - we have loads of electricity in here :-)
    Might as well do them all, it is a desktop after all.


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