Aspire E1-532p Hard Drive stays on when the computer shuts down on WIndows 10

When I shutdown my Aspire E1-532p 2883 laptop it doesn't fully do so. What I mean is this.

The fron left of the computer has 4 lights. From left to right they are: 1st is Power Indicator (blue) , 2nd is Battery Indicator (blue) , 3d is HDD indicator (blue) and 4th is Communication Indicator (amber).

Well the 3d and 4th stay on. ANd in order to boot back in I must hit the power button for a few seconds so it shuts down completely and then press it again. I assume it has something to do with my Power Settings but I am not sure.

The Power Options are set as such (for both Battery and plugged in):

When I press the power button - do nothing

When I press the sleep button - Sleep

When I close the lid - do nothing

SHUTDOWN SETTINGS

Turn on Fast start up - checked

Sleep (Show in Power menu) - checked

Hibernate (Show in Power menu) - UNchecked

Lock (Show in account picture menu) - checked

How do I fix this please?

Thank you

OS: WIndows 10 Home Edition with latest updates

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doughjohn

Hi

I don't know.

When I had issues like this I created a shortcut to SHUTDOWN the copmputer.

C:\Windows\System32\ShutDown.exe and the are "switches" to force a shutdown.

shutdown.exe /f which will close things that may be hanging.

I would also make sure that the fast start up option is removed from windows, I don't recommend it, even if MS do.

So try something like I suggest and please tell us how it went.

pintree3

doughjohn (Do u like baking or do u associate with the Pilsbury dough character? :-)

Thank you for your help. I did and do have a shortcut on my computer. Mine has this on it:

%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

I do want to add your " /f " switch but am wondering if I should place it before the ' 0 ' or where exactly (should order be important) it should be added in.

As to the fast start up option being removed, which you don't reccomend, well neither do I. :-) Many soltions to my problem seem to suggest that as well but I have this to say regarding it: Isn't it supposed to make the process of shutting down/up (logging out/in) faster? Since it is then why would I want to uncheck it. And, if that is the actual problem, then it seems to defeat its purpose since it makings power back in longer and not shorter by adding the extra step of having to manually shut down the power.

As to unchecking everything else I am not sure why I would to change that or its purpose or how it helps.

Thanks again :-)

doughjohn

Hi

Many moons ago (circa 20 years) I started to frequent 'forums' in the early days and wanted to be anonymous, rather than actually resembling the Pilsbury dough boy.

Shutdown has a few options

Usage: shutdown [/i | /l | /s | /sg | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e | /o] [/hybrid] [/soft] [/fw] [/f]
    [/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]

    No args    Display help. This is the same as typing /?.
    /?         Display help. This is the same as not typing any options.
    /i         Display the graphical user interface (GUI).
               This must be the first option.
    /l         Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d options.
    /s         Shutdown the computer.
    /sg        Shutdown the computer. On the next boot,
               restart any registered applications.
    /r         Full shutdown and restart the computer.
    /g         Full shutdown and restart the computer. After the system is
               rebooted, restart any registered applications.
    /a         Abort a system shutdown.
               This can only be used during the time-out period.
               Combine with /fw to clear any pending boots to firmware.
    /p         Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning.
               Can be used with /d and /f options.
    /h         Hibernate the local computer.
               Can be used with the /f option.
    /hybrid    Performs a shutdown of the computer and prepares it for fast startup.
               Must be used with /s option.
    /fw        Combine with a shutdown option to cause the next boot to go to the
               firmware user interface.
    /e         Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a computer.
    /o         Go to the advanced boot options menu and restart the computer.
               Must be used with /r option.
    /m \\computer Specify the target computer.
    /t xxx     Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
               The valid range is 0-315360000 (10 years), with a default of 30.
               If the timeout period is greater than 0, the /f parameter is
               implied.
    /c "comment" Comment on the reason for the restart or shutdown.
               Maximum of 512 characters allowed.
    /f         Force running applications to close without forewarning users.
               The /f parameter is implied when a value greater than 0 is
               specified for the /t parameter.
    /d [p|u:]xx:yy Provide the reason for the restart or shutdown.
               p indicates that the restart or shutdown is planned.
               u indicates that the reason is user defined.
               If neither p nor u is specified the restart or shutdown is
               unplanned.
               xx is the major reason number (positive integer less than 256).
               yy is the minor reason number (positive integer less than 65536).

and I can't explain them all.

The speed of startup is not important compared against my data. So checking / unchecking is irrelavent.

What matters to me is that the HDD is only put into 'suspend' mode and not shut down cleanly, so that if I have a problem and want to access the windows partition with a 3rd party application it reports that the "DIRTY" flag is set and will only mount read-only if you are lucky.

It is when the drive/partition has failed and you want a retreival that the difference is noticed.

MS don't have to bother about your data so shaving a few seconds off their boot time is impressive, losing your life's work, just a dissertation or family fotos bothers me.

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