Is it dangerous to add/remove a hard-drive to a Windows machine which is in stand by?
- by Adal
Can I add a SATA drive to a Windows 7 machine which is in standby mode? The hardware supports hot-plug.
Could pulling the drive out while in standby corrupt the data on the drive (unflushed caches, ...)? Does Windows flush before standing by?
How about swapping a drive with another drive of different kind (SSD - mechanical disk) and size, also while in stand-by. Could the OS when waking up believe that the old drive is still there, and write to it and thus corrupt it, since the new one has different partitions and data?