Does disabling a disk drive keep it powered off?

[Guest zeke7]

I want to minimize wear & tear on a few internal hard drives in my

computer that I access only occasionally. I see two options available:

have Power Options turn off hard drives after [x] minutes, or disable

those disk drives in Device Manager (and enable them only when I need

access).

 

Currently am using the turn off hard drives power option, but a number

of programs such as Acrobat tend to fire up these sleeping drives even

when I'm not requesting access to them.

 

Question: does disabling a disk drive in Win2K keep it powered off, or

does it continue to spin and generate heat?