Despite performing the steps above, the 2 minute sleep problem has resurfaced. I use a HP laptop with external keyboard and monitor. Just for the fun of it, I left the laptop's lid open just enough...

I followed your steps 1 thru 3 and things appear to be working fine, now. I don't know what UEFI is and couldn't find any command or label matching those letters. I can't help but wonder how...

Thanks for steering me in the right direction, but nothing seems to help, yet.

These are the settings I use.

Power & Sleep
Screen
On battery power, turn off after 5 min.
When...

I've gone into the power & sleep settings, even the advanced power settings and set all to one hour, yet the computer still goes to sleep after 2 minutes if left alone. Help.

Thanks,

Mike

Resetting "Turn off HD after" setting seems to be working. I downloaded the WD utilities as you suggested, but the dialog box covers only one HD with no option to select another. I have three...

I went into the "Change Advanced Power Settings" and changed "turn off HD after" to NEVER for both plugged in and battery. After fifteen minutes, the external HDs are still running. In fact,...

I haven't installed any software like you suggested. I'm using the external HDDs exactly as they were on the Vista system.

Hi Brink, thanks for the welcome.

I did the power changes in the tutorial, but they don't affect my external drives. Is that tutorial only for the internal drive?

Mike

I’ve just updated from Windows Vista to Windows 10 and my external hard drives are shutting down less than a minute after the last access. It’s now, “spool-up, shut-down, spool-up, shut-down.” How...