Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

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Subject: Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.
From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:26:58 -0800
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On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:

You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
and then connect the hdd live into the laptop?
Can it further damage the hdd?


YES!

And, damage the motherboard.

I should give this a try!

NO!

If you want to hot-plug hard drives, everything has to be designed to dothat. Typically, that means servers with RAID cards, HDD backplane/cages, and rated HDD's.



David

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