Preventing HDD failure when swapping cases?

bogdansin

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Aug 18, 2012
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I ordered a new thor v2 case from the newegg sale and I'd like to know how to keep the HDD good when disconnecting it. In the past, when I got a new motherboard or had to disconnect the HDD for other reasons it would fail every single time, requiring me to reinstall windows. Since then I've gotten a new hard drive for my OS but keep the one that was failing for storage (it still working fine).

I'm wondering if there's anything I need to do to prevent the HDD from failing to work when I disconnect it from the motherboard?
 
Solution
Moving hundreds of drives in and out of various machines over the past few decades, I've had exactly one drive fail doing that. And that is because I dropped it.