Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
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Odd thing happening--any options in SolidWorks (or Windows 7) to prevent start-up of SolidWorks from simultaneously starting an external hard drive? This didn't happen previously, but I've recently updated my system and reinstalled Windows 7.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
First, SW does start if I have the external drive disconnected/shut-down. But that's working now, after I double-checked the backup/recovery settings and set them to an internal drive. They hadn't been set previously, so their default was a random location on the C drive.
I'll try reconnecting the drive and restarting SW to see if it spins up during a start-up. No big deal, but I didn't put SSDs in this system to have to wait for an idle spinning drive to wind up before starting applications.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
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Han primo incensus
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I'll check with the SW forum, too, per CBL.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
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Timelord
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Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 14
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I have the Professional version of SolidWorks, so I'm not using PDM, etc. and those are not checked in Tools>Add-Ins as being active. However, what seems to have been originally installed by my computer vendor (SolidBox--great people there) is SolidWorks Premium. Regardless, I'm not using Add-Ins that go beyond what Professional includes.
It seems Photoshop does the same thing, so this is likely a Windows 7 setting/bug/feature, and not necessarily something specific to SolidWorks.
Any ideas?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
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Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 14
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
You could also use procmon to figure out which executable was accessing the external drive.
Eric
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I'll see if I can figure out how to make use of procmon. Each of the spinning drives are already named Y and Z so they keep the same drive mapping for my back-up application (instead of random letter assignments).
Thanks for all the replies so far!
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
"Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties"
I unchecked that option, so we'll see what happens as a result. I don't generally use searches for things on my hard drive, since my file system is organized in a way to find just about everything quickly without a search.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
Whats more frustrating is when you have 8 internal drives and they all get forced to spin up coz... SolidWorks! oh the joy.
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
System Options, "File Explorer", or "Backup/Recover", or ??
Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 14
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Starting SolidWorks seems to start external hard drive
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.