Hard drive removal

[VietTech]

What will happen if i remove a hard drive from my laptop to see the gb of it and put it back on? Will i lose all my stuff? Will i have to reinstall windows 10?

[Danioki]

nothing will happen. you can do it

[kirashi]

5 minutes ago, VietTech said:

What will happen if i remove a hard drive from my laptop to see the gb of it and put it back on? Will i lose all my stuff? Will i have to reinstall windows 10?

As long as you don't damage the drive in any way (don't drop it or otherwise shock it), this is fine.

[Required]

15 hours ago, Danioki said:

nothing will happen. you can do it

when his disk have any kind of encryption the data become garbage after.

[Danioki]

5 hours ago, Required said:

when his disk have any kind of encryption the data become garbage after.

no it wont, unless you put it in another system, or you don't have the means to un-encrypt it.

[Required]

Looking for "SED". After remove then depend on the System the Data are Garbage.

[Danioki]

Just now, Required said:

Looking for "SED". After remove then depend on the System the Data are Garbage.

i think if the person was using something fancy like that they won't need to be asking what will happen

[Required]

When  you buy an Business Laptop most of then have t hat feature Activated  since many SSD support it.

[Danioki]

10 minutes ago, Required said:

When  you buy an Business Laptop most of then have t hat feature Activated  since many SSD support it.

i didn't knew that it was so common. 

then please be careful before removing the SSD

[Required]

10 minutes ago, Danioki said:

then please be careful before removing the SSD

Well... Do not remove it without an external Data Backup.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Why remove the drive when all you is go to Computer. It will show how big the drive is.