Prevent Windows 7 from unpluging External HDD [migrated]

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Published on 2012-04-14T12:20:07Z Indexed on 2012/04/14 17:31 UTC
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I have installed Windows 7 as my media server. I pluged in 500GB external HDD via USB. I have changed power plan to Best Performance and changed advenced power settings to never turn off HDD etc. I even yesterday wrote powershell script (create and delete folder on this disk) and I have added it to harmonogram to run every 5 minutes starting from system boot. And nothing! Disk after some time (I realy can't say when) is turning off and Windows show "Unknown Device" in Device Manager. Then only system reboot or disk reboot helps.

Any ideas how to prevent Windows 7 from stopping my external HDD?

Cheers!

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