‘Shell’ Extensions; Quick Assist; and moving a spinning HDD

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Why would anyone need to move a spinning disk?  Assume that you were successful in actually moving it (USB external drive?), would the operating system recognize it and read the directory and set it up for use?

A current drive is SATA and uses a pretty small connector for the data stream.

My opinion is that this action is fraught with danger, both physical and data.

I would then suggest, if you really want to do this, to practice on an expendable drive.  Personally, I don’t think you will be successful.

Good luck…

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I wrote the message starting out with “Why would anyone…”

I misread the intent of the article.  I thought the idea was to move the HDD to another computer while keeping it spinning.  I thought there may be a problem with getting the drive to physically spin and then you were trying to recover files.

 

I have moved many computers with spinning drives.  Like the article says, avoid quick, sharp movements, drops of almost any distance.  My opinion is that the newer physically smaller drive have a lot less spinning momentum and might actually be more robust than the older larger drives.

 

I’m sorry about my interpretation of the original question…

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wdyblash wrote:

Why would anyone need to move a spinning disk?

Any time you want to clean under the computer, find that paper clip that slipped under the box, every time you move your laptop.

All hard disks are designed to withstand G forces whilst operational, some more that others. Laptop drives are generally more robust than desktop drives.

The SATA connector is more than tough enough to survive being moved whilst in operation.

cheers, Paul

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