How to Prevent the Hard Drive of my Windows 10 PC from Shutting Down or Suspending?

If you have wondered. why your computer turn off or suspend the hard drive after a certain period of inactivity? Since, with the arrival of the new Windows 10 updates, this problem has happened to many users.

However, this function runs just to save energy and extend the battery life of our computer. But here, we will teach you how to disable this option in case you do not want it active on your computer.

What is sleep mode on a Windows 10 computer?

To get into context a suspension on a computer. It is a function that was provided to these computers, so that the user could turn off the computer screen and the CPU without having to close any of the programs that he is using.

When we go into sleep mode, all the programs that are open in the computer will enter a pause state, and this information will be saved in the computer’s RAM memory. Turning off the computer completely, but keeping a low amount of energy in memory, this information is kept there, until the use of the computer is resumed.

In this mode, the computer tends to be in low amount of energy, and that only the RAM will be used to be active saving the information of the open windows, Thanks to this, the energy consumption is less for the computer saving this.

Hard drive failures and wear and tear on some computers

Hard drives are a very important component for the computer. But how to know if the hard drive is damaged is the most important thing there is, since, we can take steps to repair it. Failures such as the wear of the HDD, when it is in a state of rest, can appear at any time

When we are in sleep mode, we refer to a state of having no activity, stopping the energy in the arms and axis of the hard drive. But this causes them harm, both mechanical and electronic to be presented when the operating system boots the hard drive. Since, power surges to hard drive after sleep state.

What are the differences between sleep mode and hibernate mode?

Computers have two modes, one of sleep, and one hibernation. When we use it they can look alike in many ways. But no, they are not the same and although they perform similar functions, the information that is saved is stored in different parts of the computer.

However, these two functions have the same function of save power for battery life of the computer. In this way, we can adjust our consumption and hours of use on the computer

sleep mode

1. store all the information in the memoria RAM
2. When it enters the shutdown state, its power consumption will only be in the memory part to keep this information active until the moment the computer operations are resumed.
3. Booting this way is faster than hibernation
4. The main problem with this mode lies in laptops, since if this is in the sleep mode and the battery discharges, all this information will be lost and all the pages that we had saved will have to be opened again

When using hibernate mode

1. When using the hibernate mode, all the information will be stored on the hard drive and then it will shut down completely and not be saved in RAM.
2. Power consumption when in sleep mode is even lower than sleep mode and better at saving power for the computer
3. Turning on the computer in this mode will be slower than the previous one, since the hard drive will have to read the information first, and then boot up the computer.

Within the options of these two modes, you must take into account the waiting time. If you want to turn off your computer for a few periods of time and then resume your activity, opt for Suspend mode. But if you will be inactive for long periods and you don’t want to lose anything you have on your computer, then the best option is to activate the computer’s Hibernate.

How to disable a Windows PC from suspending the hard drive?

If you want to prevent your Windows computer from doing hard drive suspension, you will have to go into the options under power to disable this option. To do this, follow the steps shown below:

1. To enter and configure the suspended of the hard disk. press the keys Windows + R to open and write control.exe powercfg.cpl,,3 in the run. This will open the power options
2. Within these options you will choose the hard disk, then in the displayed options you will click on ‘Turn off hard disk after’
3. You will indicate here, after how many minutes turn off the hard drive. You will indicate never to disable this option.