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Article #119Re: can a hard disk in removable cradle be hot-swapped?
From: Kevin
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:00
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waits anxiously for the next post from Ross asking how to recover the lost data on his supposed hot swappable IDE or SCSI drive... laffs -- Regards Kevin Upton http://start.at/nivek http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_38411.html Ross <reply.to@NG.please> wrote in message news:3816c9c7.10483959@news.labyrinth.net.au... > I've just installed removable hard disk cradles so I can put a > removable (second) hard disk in each PC. So far, I've been turning > the PC off for safety before pulling out the hard disc cradle. > However, it would be a lot more convenient if I could treat it like a > floppy - ie, so long as the drive is not actually writing to disk at > the time, can you pull the disk out while the PC and Windows are still > powered up? > > Is this OK? Won't hurt the hard disk, I hope? > > Ross
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