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Can I remove an IDE DVD Optical Drive while my PC is turned on?

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its in sata's core whitepeper to support hotplug. so if a sata drive does not support hotplug it is a non standard drive.
 

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You will arc the power doing that with the standard 3pin power cables. SATA power connectors are specifically designed to eliminate that.
 

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hmm...this thread is old indeed. But, I'll post my story :p. I tried to hotswap a harddrive. it was an EIDE, and used the molex connector. I plugged it in and got shocked, and the pc turned off. i reset everything, and tried to power the system back on and BOOM! the power supply made a pop sound, and smoke was eminating from the vents of the PSU. I don't know if you did it yet, but don't...if you did it, you are truley something else. NO ONE should ever unplug/plug in ANYTHING when the PC is on. Sure, some people have gotten lucky hotswapping stuff, BUT, what if you do it and the PSU or something gets fried/shorted out/starts smoking? wow, this was the longest post I probably ever did :p
 

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Smart choice :)
 

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hmm...this thread is old indeed. But, I'll post my story :p. I tried to hotswap a harddrive. it was an EIDE, and used the molex connector. I plugged it in and got shocked, and the pc turned off. i reset everything, and tried to power the system back on and BOOM! the power supply made a pop sound, and smoke was eminating from the vents of the PSU. I don't know if you did it yet, but don't...if you did it, you are truley something else. NO ONE should ever unplug/plug in ANYTHING when the PC is on. Sure, some people have gotten lucky hotswapping stuff, BUT, what if you do it and the PSU or something gets fried/shorted out/starts smoking? wow, this was the longest post I probably ever did :p

You have to be fast like a ninja...sorry about that happening to you/Yea if the pins don't line up when your plugging something in that can happen.
 

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I surely wasn't working fast....and I remember the PSU's female connector, the pins were kinda crooked, it was stupid of me to try it when knowing they were crooked...:shadedshu myself
 

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cant you blind yourself if the drive is on? and youd think that it would shock you if it was actually running...
 
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YAY! Welcome back Casheti. I thought you banned till next year?
 

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i have pulled many parts well allmost all cus im dumb brave an like to try things

i have pulled

video
ram
pci cards
hd.s wile being read
psu strate from the board wile on

never fryed any thing most pci cards ar hot swapable [agp no lmao] pci-x not shure yeat

cdroms an stuff genraly freez or chug out the system [when removed ide] sata is like usb

weardist thing i ever has was a sdram ssystem with a 128mb stick an a 64mb stick so i pulled the 64mb stick wile it was running an it was like it dident evin notis lol widows kept running

ov corese this dosent work now as most systems ar dule chaneel an it breaks the mix

worst if had is i shorted the psu a few times [gota wate for the breaker in the psu]

an i remember a few times where i had the psu on an the system off an i went to put in a card an as i was it came on so i pulled the power cord till i got it in

im with the others thow its better/safer to just turn it off an take it out
 

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i did it and when i plug the new one in to the psu the plug was upside down the system cut off (so i might as well had turned it off) and the drive wasnt useable agian
 

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of course, you could always get fried. almost every component in/connected to the computer could shock you if you do something stupid with it. actually going into the computer could kill you if you touch the wrong thing. i would check Computer Hazards with an official computer website before doing something like that.
 
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i wouldn't do it matter of fact don't do it you could burn up your optical drive when you hook that molex power up, highly not reccomended, now if it was sata it wouldn't matter, gotta love that hot swap
 

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of course, you could always get fried. almost every component in/connected to the computer could shock you if you do something stupid with it. actually going into the computer could kill you if you touch the wrong thing. i would check Computer Hazards with an official computer website before doing something like that.

Look at the post date. You responded to a thread that is almost a year old.
 
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haha i didn't even see the date lame oh well
 
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Check Again!!!!!

That's only for SATA :p

Nice find though..

http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm
Read the fine print!!!!
quoted from the site for the program.....

By default, only Fixed disk drives are listed in the popup menu but you can configure Removable disk drives and DVD/CD-ROM drives to be included. The drives removable from the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon also can be configured. The non-hot swap drives also can be configured but listed in gray.
 
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IDE is particularly sensitive, and not hot-swappable, do NOT unplug a IDE from a powered up computer, although what will fry is most likely the IDE chip so you could be left with a half-way working system, how likely it is that things go wrong depend on luck but also on how much protection the manufacturer puts in the interface, some put in some safeguards, other none at all.

(SATA however is hot-swappable, but if it's a HDD you must either disable caching or purge the cache before removal or the filesystem can get damaged, sysinternals.com, now a microsoft site has a utility called 'sync' to purge btw.)
 
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im try it with floppy disk drive , yes you can
 
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