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

["Schlacta, Christ" <aarcane@aarcane.org>]

On Feb 8, 2014 10:27 PM, "David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
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> On 02/08/2014 09:54 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
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>> 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?
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> YES!
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> And, damage the motherboard.

No.

Sata supports hotplugging. The worst that will happen is some controllers will not recognize devices after hotplugging due to lack of firmware configured detect devices after an initial post bus scan.
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>> I should give this a try!
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> NO!

It depends. If your hard drive is externally accessible it can't hurt anything. If your hard drive is under panels that also protect ram or any other pcbs, you generally shouldn't run system with those covers missing.
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> If you want to hot-plug hard drives, everything has to be designed to do that.  Typically, that means servers with RAID cards, HDD backplane/ cages, and rated HDD's.

Completely wrong. Wikipedia has it in fairly simple words:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Hotplug

Also the first twenty or so articles on Google all confirm at a glance that hotswap is supported by sata intrinsically, and any problems are the result of software or firmware bugs failing to trigger hotswap events properly.

Please to not spread bad or wrong information.

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