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I want to command a disk to park and stop spinning in Windows 7, and I want the disk to stay parked and not spinning persistently through multiple reboots.

I have two drive bays on my Samsung RF711 laptop. I run the OS on a small SSD and I use the other bay for a mechanical 5400 rpm data drive.

When the spinning drive is parked I do not need to worry about jarring my laptop. Can I command the disk to go into a state where the disk does not spin and is not used at all, then command it later to start spinning and become available?

A windows solution is slightly preferred, but any dos command or free utility will do.

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The Windows Disk Management utility can make a disk "offline", which puts a little red down arrow near the Disk number in the left column. Does making a disk offline park the disk? Is there a DOS command to accomplish this? – steampowered Nov 21 '11 at 16:36
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