I have noticed that, in my workstation, SolidWorks may require a lot of time "more than usual" to stat. I think that this behavior is related to the energy saving settings of the hard drivers in my workstation. The standard energy saving settings in Windows 7 and 8 (I have tested with both of this OS) turns off the hard drives after some minutes of disuse.

If I start SolidWorks after the PC boot, then I have an almost instant start of the program. If I start SolidWorks after a few hours that I am working with other software that dosen't use some of the back-up harddrives, then I have to wait for the hds to start again (I can cleary hear the inizialization sound of the drives).

Because I don't need this drives to run when SolidWorks is running I would like to know if I can stop the program from "turning-on" all the hard drives in the computer before it starts.

Can you help me? Thanks!