I just want to make in sure that what i read was correct as long as you have sata 2 or above you can unplug the drives while the system is powered on? Im asking because my main drive is failing I already ordered a new one it will be here tomorrow. I want to be able to get the stuff off the drive but i don't want to boot into the os. My plan is to reinstall the os on the new drive and copy the files afterwords.Im not trying to mess up the boot cfg file.
Sata drive question
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That is entirely dependent on the motherboard, but normally no, you cannot unplug/plug in a drive on a computer that's running.
Just unplug the old HDD, install the new HDD, install Windows to the new HDD, shutdown and plug the old HDD back in and boot to the new HDD so you can grab your files from your old HDD.
Just unplug the old HDD, install the new HDD, install Windows to the new HDD, shutdown and plug the old HDD back in and boot to the new HDD so you can grab your files from your old HDD.
What the above guy said, connecting a new drive while the system is powered on is not normally required, and often doesn't work anyway, even though SATA spec says the drives are hot-swappable.
On the other hand if the old drive is basically dead, and is sometimes not recognized on boot, you shouldn't turn off the system and use the opportunity while the drive is recognized.
Your post doesn't have enough information to conclude whether or not this is the case. You ever had the drive not be recognized by the system or do you just have bad sectors or occasional clicks?
More info please.
On the other hand if the old drive is basically dead, and is sometimes not recognized on boot, you shouldn't turn off the system and use the opportunity while the drive is recognized.
Your post doesn't have enough information to conclude whether or not this is the case. You ever had the drive not be recognized by the system or do you just have bad sectors or occasional clicks?
More info please.
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Your original statement could be interpreted as "do a RAID setup with the broken drive."
Just saying.
Just saying.
You should build yourself a RAID setup to protect your data, I did not say how you should use your existing drives.
In a scenario like yours where a drive is going bad, RAID does offer an advantage because you can just pull a bad drive out and rebuild the array and not bother copying anything manually, the RAID system will take care of that for you. That's for your future consideration.
For now you get to deal with what you've got.
Let me clarify right now i got two drives in the pc now. No raid setup. One is a 320 gb the other is a 500gb drive. the 320gb drive is the that is going bad. I got data on both drives I dont want to lose. I bought a replacement drive for the 320gb drive and i want to get the data off the old drive. Does that help?
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Install the new drive, install Windows, shut down when installation finishes.
Install the old drive, boot to the new drive, get the data off the old drive.
As simple as that.
Install the old drive, boot to the new drive, get the data off the old drive.
As simple as that.
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If you have a high degree of confidence that this drive has some life left in it, you could actually do a RAID 1 setup with it choosing it as the SOURCE DRIVE, that way it is not wiped, and the new drive is the destination drive. Basically RAID 1 takes care of cloning for you. If some time in the future the old drive fails, you've got a perfect clone on the new drive, and you can use it as a single drive or get another drive and continue with RAID.
I should point out that just because you bought a new drive doesn't mean that you can be 100% sure it won't fail sooner than your old drive. Say your old drive has another year of life left in it, but the new drive suddenly fails in 6 months. With RAID you don't have to worry about losing data to bad drives.
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