Timeline for How do I prevent Windows from randomly spinning up a (green) USB harddrive?
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| Jan 9, 2013 at 23:59 | comment | added | willy | Assuming $diid is a string which holds the device instance ID of the HDD, $disks = gwmi win32_diskdrive | ? pnpdeviceid -eq $diid $c = @($disks).count if ($c -eq 1) { $diskid = $disks.index $dpscript = @" sel disk $diskid offline disk exit "@ $dpscript | diskpart } else { write-host "ERROR" } | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 23:48 | comment | added | willy | Thanks, but I found out that the serial number of a HDD isn't necessarily unique and that, even though collisions are probably rare, there is a better way to find the correct disk number. | |
| Dec 31, 2012 at 22:19 | history | answered | David Ruhmann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |