Windows 10: How do I prevent one of my internal HDDs from constantly spinning up when not in use?

I have a ThinkPad with 3 storage drives. I have a HDD installed in one of them to store files that I don't use often, so I can free up the SSDs for the things that benefit the most from faster storages.

I have this issue in which drive would spin up even when I haven't accessed it for a long time. This is an issue on two fronts: 1. There's no need for the hard drive to be spinning. 2. Perhaps the most irritating, the noise. I live in an extremely quiet place and the sound of the hard drive spinning drives me crazy.

I've tried a couple of things to spin down the hard drive while not in use. I've gone to power management and set the option to spin down the hard drive to 5 minutes. While this does cause the hard drive to spin down, the hard drive would spin back up after a few minutes. I thought maybe there's some program accessing the hard drive. I've changed the drive letter so that if this was the case the program would not find the hard drive again. This didn't solve the problem. In a last ditch effort, I formatted the whole thing. Still, the hard drive would make up every few minutes. Surprisingly, this is not the case when I switch to a Linux distro. So, clearly, there's something going on in Windows that is causing the issue. As I've exhausted all my options, I don't know what more to do and I would appreciate if someone would help in this regard.

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