Spin Down Hard Disk Programmatically on Windows?

Question

How do you request Windows to spin down a hard disk programmatically? Is there any user-mode function I can call (or kernel-mode function to call or IRP to send) in order to mak

Answer 1

I hope this helps:

This: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394173%28VS.85%29.aspx

Leads to this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394132%28VS.85%29.aspx#properties

Then, you can browse to this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393485(v=VS.85).aspx

This documentation seems to outline what you are looking for I think.

P.S. Just trying to help, don't shoot the messanger.