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| 1364222 | 2014-01-04 04:56:00 | Hi All I've just been trying to read up on what I believe is called "hot swapping", however, I'm not sure whether this is correct or not ... most of the stuff I read was way over my pay grade ! OK .. I have a computer with Asus MB - 1TB HD SATA with Win7 64 OS. I also have a secondary HD (IDE) with XP and can choose which one I want to use after boot up. Obviously if I choose Win7, that drive is designated C: and the other becomes E: and vice versa. The question I would like the answer to is:- At boot up if I choose Win7 as OS C: and have XP E: as a slave, am I able to remove E: drive safely and put another HD in it's place as a slave without stuffing anything up and without having to power everything down ?? Hope that makes sense to someone :confused: |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1364223 | 2014-01-04 06:10:00 | You can't hot swap IDE drives. For hot swapping SATA drives you need to have AHCI (advanced host controller interface for SATA drives) enabled in the BIOS. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1364224 | 2014-01-04 06:54:00 | Thanks Terry ... I thought that was the case, but the confirmation is very much appreciated. | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1364225 | 2014-01-04 21:27:00 | Also, bad things happen if you try and hot swap a HDD the OS is running on if its not using RAID. Hot swapping is nice, but very rarely feasible in a home or small office environment :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1364226 | 2014-01-04 23:28:00 | Where I find hot swapping handy is when backing up, or plugging in another drive without having to power down. I have 2 caddies and an e-sata docking station. (I get the impression e-sata may be falling out of fashion in favour of USB3 these days. ) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1364227 | 2014-01-06 07:56:00 | The closest I feel safe with in regard to a 'hot swap' is to use a proper external drive via USB. Slower, but safer by far. Probably won't work with regard to swapping in/out a boot drive. All drives on an internal interface don't get touched until the 'puter has been shut down entirely. With PATA drives I used to get cheap 5.25" enclosures from Dick Smith and place a couple of receptacles for them in the CD/DVD bays. Still needed a power-down before removing / replacing any of them, plus some further time wasted in the BIOS on occasion at startup. |
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