Temporary File Storage

  • Thread starter Thread starter Peter
  • Start date Start date
P

Peter

Hi
I have a 250Gbyte external USB drive I use for backup. (WD Mybook). This
drive is designed to power down when not in use but starts up unexpectedly
on occasion. I've tracked some of these to it being used to unpack
downloaded updates & I have been told that windows use the larges drive
available for such action. Aside from the irritation of the drive starting
up windows is using a slow drive. Does anyone know any way of stopping XP
using this drive? I'm on XP Pro

TIA

Peter
 
Peter said:
Hi
I have a 250Gbyte external USB drive I use for backup. (WD Mybook). This
drive is designed to power down when not in use but starts up
unexpectedly on occasion. I've tracked some of these to it being
used to unpack downloaded updates & I have been told that windows use
the larges drive available for such action. Aside from the
irritation of the drive starting up windows is using a slow drive. Does
anyone know any way of stopping XP using this drive? I'm on XP
Pro
Click to expand...


Disconnect it when you're not doing a backup. As far as I'm concerned, the
whole point of backing up to an external drive rather than an internal is
that your backup drive doesn't stay connected when you are not backing up.
That protects you from simultaneous loss of the original and backup to many
of the most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby lightning strikes,
user errors, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.
 
Back
Top