Moving Hard Drive

Forcreeps · Feb 26, 2014

If I want to move a hard drive to another bay, how do I do it without erasing all the data on it?

Thanks, Ron

USAFRet · Feb 26, 2014

Another bay in the same PC?

Power off, disconnect the cables, move it, reconnect, power up.

It won't lose anything. Hard drives are non-volatile.

Forcreeps · Feb 26, 2014

USAFRet :

So I won't have to back up the files, and won't lose Windows?

Windsun33 · Feb 26, 2014

All you are doing is changing the physical position of the drive. Nothing on the drive will be affected.

USAFRet · Feb 26, 2014

Forcreeps :

You could take that drive out, sit it on the shelf for a year.
Plug it back in with everything still there.