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Currently, my external HDD beeps and spins up then I reach over and yank out the USB cable from my desktop because I don't wish to be disturbed.

Instead can I make a desktop icon that when I click on it disables the USB hard drive meaning it cannot be detected by explorer?

To then click another icon and make it appear to explorer?

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Download SmartMonTools and use bat/cmd file(you can create shortcut on your desktop) to fire up following command to spin down (put to sleep) ext.drive:

@echo off

Rem Assume your external hard drive assigned to the letter "M"
smartctl.exe -s standby,now M:

If you really want to get rid of external HDD (disable it so it won't show up in explorer) then take a look here how to unmount/mount drives from script

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