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December 13, 2013, 06:09:09 PM |
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For anyone interested - this appears to've gone off without a hitch.
I also stumbled upon a fairly easy and seemingly-reliable (no guarantees - don't do it if you care about the data or drive) way to hot-swap SATA drives in Windows without any fancy tools or data corruption: 1) Goto Admin Tools-> Computer Management 2) Click Disk Management 3) Locate physical drive (bottom window) you want to swap out 4) Right-click the drive, click "Properties" 5) Goto "Policies" tab, uncheck "Enable Write Caching" option (then click "Okay") 6) Right-click physical drive again, click "Offline" 7) Wait for "Offline" message to appear (at least in W7, help bubble pops up next to "Offline" with "Help" displaying below) 8 ) Disconnect SATA power cable from drive, then disconnect SATA data cable. 9) Connect SATA power cable to new drive you want to swap in (using the same cables as the old drive!), then connect SATA data cable (same cable!) 10) Right-click the old drive in the Computer Management screen which is offline and click "Online."
Idunno if steps 4 & 5 are essential, but at least seemed like a reasonable fail-safe in case I made a mistake.
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