No Protection?

[g4m3rof1337]

If I dont buy a $50 enclosure.
Can I back my hdd up my planned hdd, but keep it in my computer, COMPLETELY unplugged? And not have it be harmed in any way?

It was formatted and the type was RAW
What do I do to put my backup stuff on it?



Thanks

 

[gottabamd]

Can I back my hdd up my planned hdd

huh?

 

[diduknowthat]

huh?

ahah no clue. But to answer the other part of the question, yes you can safely leave a hard drive mounted in your computer completely unplugged.

As for the format, just plug the hard drive into the computer, then use partition manager to make a NTFS partition.

 

[Geoff]

I dont have any idea what you mean.

If you mean keep a hard drive in your system unplugged, and then plug it in when you need it, that will be fine.

 

[PC eye]

You will have to rephrase your wording there a little. I can assume you need to know how to prepare an older drive for storage and backup of files and data from a newer drive being installed? This will require a partition on the drive with a clean volume best seen after a reformat. If you are installing Windows on a new drive it won't copy anything or make any changes to the older drive if there is other version of Windows installed on it. It will just be seen as another logical drive when detected.

It won't hurt to have it unplugged when installing Windows. But when detected Windows will install it as a new detected hardware in it's own logs on the new drive. If the drive has an unformatted partition you can easily use the disk management tool found in control panel>administrative tools>computer management>storage to format the drive to see it listed as a new logical drive.

 

[g4m3rof1337]

Can I use the hdd i intended on using?
Since, it was a RAW format.
It shouldnt matter if its in an enclosure or if its just sitting there .

 

[Geoff]

You need to have the drive formatted to FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. You cant keep it unallocated (RAW).

 

[PC eye]

Upon first installing Windows on the new drive, seeing that running good, and having the second(raw) plugged in you simply use the format option seen in the right click menu. You find that when going into the disk management tool mentioned earlier to format the new single or multiple partitions created. They will then be seen as logical drives given an assigned drive letter by Windows.