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Topic: I have a question
Dragoness Joined Wed 10/17/07 Posts: 23320	Wed 05/14/08 03:05 PM
I may be putting my computer into storage for a few months. I don't want to lose anything off of it. I had heard you have to keep it plugged in to keep the hard drive from having something happen to it. Is this true?

ljcc1964 Joined Fri 10/19/07 Posts: 8298	Wed 05/14/08 03:06 PM
No

Thomas27 Joined Sun 10/21/07 Posts: 4860	Wed 05/14/08 03:07 PM
I don't think so, I had a laptop that was unplugged all the time and I never lost anything off it.

Dragoness Joined Wed 10/17/07 Posts: 23320	Wed 05/14/08 03:10 PM
Thanks

whispertoascream Joined Fri 11/17/06 Posts: 22844	Wed 05/14/08 03:23 PM
Why not back things up just incase?

adj4u Joined Sun 04/08/07 Posts: 21254	Wed 05/14/08 03:27 PM
Why not back things up just incase? hard drive is non power stable cmos battery may go bad but i doubt it in only a couple months have multiple hard drives in usb enclosures that rarely see power work just fine when needed

no_namer Joined Mon 05/12/08 Posts: 483	Wed 05/14/08 08:25 PM
I may be putting my computer into storage for a few months. I don't want to lose anything off of it. I had heard you have to keep it plugged in to keep the hard drive from having something happen to it. Is this true? nope, the only thing that hurts a hard disk is if the filters become saturated with moisture. keep it in a fairly dry place to prevent this from happening. for the most part, unless you are living in the rain forest nothing like this happens very often.

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