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Originally Posted by hobbes_fan
SATA is definitely hotswappable, it's one of the advantages over PATA. Windows, as your link posted won't let you remove the boot drive for obvious reasons. But non boot drives are fine.
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It also depends on your hardware. My motherboard supports SATA, but in the manual it states that it does not support the hot-swappable feature of SATA drives. I went for a budget board that's socket 754 (it was cheap!) which probably explains why it doesn't support it; I'd imagine that it's standard on practically all hardware today.