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From the page I linked in my 1st reply:
Here is the proceeding of revoSleep
- Locks all partitions on the specified hard disk drive.
- Dismounts all partitions on the specified hard disk drive.
- Sends the specified hard disk to sleep.
- Puts all volumes on the specified hard disk drive in offline state.
- Deactivates the driver for the specified hard disk.
- The locked hard disk drives won't wake up.
- You can unlock/lock different hard disk drives.
Like you already said it yourself, the problem is in the "Sends the specified hard disk to sleep" part. So that's why I have put the custom command in there. My only gripe is that I still haven't been able to find a way to get it to work for external USB HDDs so, for that, I ended up buying an externally powered USB 3.0 hub that has a separate mechanical pushbutton switch next to each one of its ports (RSHTECH/Rosonway 16 ports, 100 watts @ 12V DC, aluminum body). I started using revoSleep about 12 years ago, on Windows 7. Some of my oldest external HDD enclosures have eSATA (external SATA), it works fine with revoSleep, but these days I no longer use the eSATA connection type. I am all too familiar with how annoying it can be when Windows keeps inadvertently waking up HDDs for no apparent reason.