Hi,
I use an old IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop with dual boot Win98se or WinXP.
It is on all day long until 4:30PM. Note: WinXP home edition SP2.
When not in use for some time, I will reboot into Win98se because the
"Power Management" will stop the hard disk drive spinning after a selected
period of time. Unfortunately, WinXP's "Power Management" does not
"work" for this purpose.
Does anyone know of a "fix"?
Thank You in advance, John

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds000834

Ben

The readme says something about it "reading the battery status" ?

Paul

It seems to contain a Power Management driver, a battery information driver
and a registry patch. If it doesn't help, there are newer downloads at
https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkp.../ddfm/T23.html

Ben

Hi Ben,

I downloaded (via above link) the Power Management for IBM PC Win2000/XP
and installed it. Clicking on the Power Management icon via IBM
Configuration, the screen looked exactly like WinXP's PM with the exact same
settings for "Plugged In". Unfortunately, far beyond 20 minutes
(setting), the hard disk (no activity) is still spinning.

Note: I forgot to mention that I use an AC Adapter with my Thinkpad all
the time.

Thanks for your effort, John