does connecting an hdd when your computer is powered up damage it

buachille

buachille

buachille

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the title is my question.

but to explain, i have had a couple of situations recently where both my hdd's ended up being seen, by windows, as active partitions. only way to get windows to boot was disconnect the data one, then reconnect it once past boot.

is this bad for the mobo??
 
Sata hard drives are hot pluggable (although not all motherboards support hot plug mode), but I certainly wouldnt advise hot plugging and IDE drive.

Neither IDE, nor SATA connectors are really robust enough for frequent connection/disconnection.

Better really to resolve the partitioning issue, and/or work out how it happened in the first place.
 
the issue is resolved but i was curious.

anyway, the hdd's are sata and the mobo is an evga 680i, so i think i should be ok. what think you?
 
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i wouldnt just out of fear, and it really doesnt take that long to power down and power up?
 
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