I've recently added a removable hard drive to my 98SE machine.  (The bay
has been there for ages, but i attributed some issues to an inadequate power
supply and so I never inserted a drive into the bay until recently when I
upgraded the power supply.)
  What I've noticed is that the removable drive gets selected during boot-
up, and sits there with the red LED illuminated indicating that it is still
in use, even after the boot process completes.
  If I visit the drive's Properties in Windows Explorer, the LED finally
goes out, and from then on it behaves as I would expect.

  Could this problem be related?

Dave Gillett


On 28 Aug 2004 at 12:11, glenn bennington wrote:

> Hello solvers of problems large and small,
> Not sure if this is software or hardware issue, but its affecting hardware. Have a Dell (sorry) 4600 , 40gb, 256mb ram,Windows XP home. Acouple of months ago the harddrive started running whenever the computer is on. even setting my power options to go to standby after 10 minutes of idle dosn't work. I can put it on standby manually and it works. but of course my wife just lets it run and that drives me nuts.  Any recomendations?????????????   Thanks in advance  Glenn Bennington
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