A hard-disk is shut down due to a time-out specified in
Control Panel->Power Options. Then, a system shutdown is
invoked. On shutdown, Windows shutdowns all hard-disks.
But, it needlessly starts the already shut down hard-disk
only to shut it down once its started.

Please fix this bug, it is very annoying.

G wrote:

> A hard-disk is shut down due to a time-out specified in
> Control Panel->Power Options. Then, a system shutdown is
> invoked. On shutdown, Windows shutdowns all hard-disks.
> But, it needlessly starts the already shut down hard-disk
> only to shut it down once its started.
>
> Please fix this bug, it is very annoying.

Windows *always* has something to save to your hard drive(s)
during shut-down. Hence the drive has to spin up, have
the data written to it, then be shut down again.

By comparison, I have several drives in my home system
and only one of them (the one with Windows on it) spins
up from idle when at auto-shutdown happens. That is to
be expected - the Windows registry in on that drive and
you can bet the bank that *something* is going to be
written to the registry every time you shut down.