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    Possible stupid question about sleep mode.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ayle, Jan 22, 2011.

  1. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Is it possible to remove a hard drive from a computer while it's in sleep mode? Basically I want to try hotswapping drive in a pata laptop without having to do a complete reboot between drive swapping.
     
    Ayle, Jan 22, 2011
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    risk loosing all of your data VS. 2m of your time...
     
    whitrzac, Jan 22, 2011
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    I wouldnt do it, the system is just on standby. Besides PATA/IDE isnt even hotswappable unlike SATA.

    Is it the primary OS drive or external storage?
     
    flipfire, Jan 22, 2011
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    If its an internal drive, doesnt matter if primary (with the OS) or a 2nd drive, you will get a blue screen when you try to wake up the system. Same thing if you suspend to disk and try to change the ram or suspend to ram and try to change the graphics card.

    I have never actually tried it with a PATA drive but done it on a desktop computer with SATA. I dont think PATA will be any better.
     
    wave, Jan 22, 2011
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    Chances of electrocute is low but power surge to hardware may be higher. I wouldn't want to do that just to insure little more safety to my laptop.
     
    NEX_SASIN, Jan 22, 2011
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    You could probably do it from hibernate actually. Then the next time you boot the computer it would recover from hibernation instead of sleep.
     
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    where does it find the hiberation image on next boot, it has been swapped out ?

    Unless we are talking about secondary HDD or the image is croned to the new swapped in one.
     
    chimpanzee, Jan 22, 2011
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    HUH? It would still reboot and load from start because if you take the HD out you take the HiberFile with it...
     
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    Hm yes that was definitely worded poorly.
    I was referring to when you swapped back to the first HDD. So you hibernate on HDD1, swap and boot into HDD2, hibernate and swap back to HDD1, recover from hibernate on HDD1, etc etc.
     
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    I wanted to know because a friend gave me an old machine and a bunch of old pata 2.5" drives and wanted me to see what was on there. The problem is that it pretty much never goes past POST so I wanted to try booting it from a flash drive and put the thing in sleep mode when swapping the different drive since shutting it down means that I might not be able to start again... I guess I'll just tell him to go buy an enclosure. I wouldn't want to corrupt the data on the drives or fry them...

    Thanks for the inputs.
     
    Ayle, Jan 22, 2011
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