Will this work with sata drives?

There are ways of switching drives when going to restart a system with a custom setup. But that involves totally isolating each drive separately not simply reversing wires on the data cable. :rolleyes:

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PC eye, that technique will work for drives with jumpers. A switch is simply a tool to connecting 2 points, which is exactly what a jumper does. A switch however, can be opened to break the connection.

You should be able to do that softly with the BIOS by switching around the hard drive boot priority but the physical switch on the front will not work unless you have one that can alternate between SATA cables.
 
I see, one last question from the noob then :D

would it be possible to do something like this with the power wires going to the sata drives? so that only one is powered at a time (unless that's harmful...)
 
It should be OK to do it if you can find a switch that you can split all the power lines on. Sounds like more work than it would be worth though, just put GRUB on one drive and configure it for linux and windows and leave the windows boot loader on the other.
 
Dual booting and electrically switching drives are two totally different things there. The power plugs would left in on two drives while one end of the sata data cable goes into a switch with a lead for each drive coming out of it as well.

When throwing the switch during the reboot the first drive is disconnected while the second is then connected through the switch to the same sata port on the board itself. A dual boot configuration simply leaves one drive as the default or host drive while a boot loader includes entries for both OSs.
 
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