How to safely disable HDD and SSD for a while?

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Max1152020-06-28 17:04:19

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Max115, 2020-06-28 17:04:19

Hello! There was a need to get the drives from the system unit for an indefinite time. When I assembled the system unit and installed the OS more than once, I encountered the capriciousness (probably caused by my manual work as well) of Windows, which always gave errors when reconnecting the HDD (I tried to put two systems side by side on different disks), I had to reinstall everything a couple of times.
Now there is important information on the disks.
How can you protect yourself from problems when they are turned off? Or is the only iron way - to transfer all the data to a removable disk? But even if you do this, maybe there are some rules when disconnecting drives, so that later you can simply connect them again and start the installed system safely?

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Konstantin Tsvetkov, 2020-06-28
@Max115

Unplug your computer.
Remember which cable was specifically used (inscribe).
Remember settings in BIOS.

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Ziptar, 2020-06-29
@Ziptar

If raid arrays were not used, then in any case, it will be possible to extract data after disabling. Anyway. But like this, or otherwise - it depends on a bunch of small nuances.

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lonelymyp, 2020-06-30
@lonelymyp

When there are 2 disks in the system, for example, A and B, then when installing Windows, a situation may arise that disk B will become the boot disk, and Windows itself will lie on disk A.
Therefore, removing disk B from the system, the system will not be able to boot, although disk A with Windows will remain in the computer.
In principle, this problem can be fixed using a boot disk and repairing the boot area, you can google the instructions.
But it's better not to allow this initially, a primitive but reliable way is to disconnect extra disks before installing Windows and connect them back when Windows is installed.
Also, the procedure for installing two or more operating systems on different disks does not look quite banal, for this it is also better to look for instructions on Google.

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pindschik, 2020-09-13
@pindschik

It was necessary to temporarily disable all unnecessary disks BEFORE installing the system. Then there will be no links.