KSP accessing drive it's not installed on at startup?

[shuggaloaf]

Hoping someone can help me to hopefully stop KSP from waking a sleeping hard drive. It is not installed on the drive it is waking. The drive only contains media files. No system or user files on this disk. No reason to access. I'm assuming KSP must be doing some kind of scan of all disks when it starts? Anyone know why this happens and more importantly, if there is a way to stop it?

 

This is a fresh, un-modded, install of KSP 1.2.2 64bit. Win 7 Ultimate 64. I know this is KSP because every time, at the exact moment I double click the exe file, the hard drive immediately spins up, then goes back to sleep after the set time. I'd be happy to provide any more info that may help. 

[Waxing_Kibbous]

Is this only when KSP starts? This sounds more like OS level behavior, doing a quick search you will find this happening to others. Back in the old days I used to have a Mac with 2 drives with their own operating systems and the one that wasn't being used would spin up annoyingly as well. But, who knows, I could be wrong...

[shuggaloaf]

I do have random times when my drive will spin up so I am familiar with that whole pain but I think this is unrelated as with other programs I don't get the drive spinning up when I start them. Now Windows may spin up the drive for no reason when I'm not doing anything at all, but this is very specific in that every single time I start KSP it spins up immediately. No other programs cause this specific type of issue. Thanks for the reply.

[sal_vager]

Hi @shuggaloaf, is this a network drive? If it is then it may be caused by the Unity www class, KSP has to use this to be able to load user files (mods etc) unfortunately this will poke everything on your network, which can cause slow loading.

I don't know of any way to prevent it, and I don't know if the workaround is viable for Squads use case.