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Safely hot-swap HDD's?

y3llowduk
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Hi Guys, How do you safely hot-swap HDD's, if possible? I've got a system I use for wiping and pulling data off old drives and I want to get a few 5.25 to 3.5 hot swap bay for it. Can you hot swap HDD's on a Windows 10 machine with the machine still running? Is there a way of powering down the HDD first maybe before yanking it out? I don't really know what's best practise here... if there is one. And before anyone asks, external HDD docks aren't really practical for me.

 

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You can, as long as your motherboard supports it. If it does, it recognizes drives as removeable devices.

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1 minute ago, Levent said:

You can, as long as your motherboard supports it. If it does, it recognizes drives as removeable devices.

Ok cool, I've noticed I can do this on my Gaming rig just via the taskbar as if it's a usb stick. I'll have to try it on my test rig... is there a BIOS setting relating to this maybe?

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Just now, y3llowduk said:

Ok cool, I've noticed I can do this on my Gaming rig just via the taskbar as if it's a usb stick. I'll have to try it on my test rig... is there a BIOS setting relating to this maybe?

Yeah precisely, you have to enable it in bios.

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