Windows 10: Disconnect internal hard drive externally

I have used 4 LaCie usb drives for years with xp, win7 and it works great. Boot to the usb and restore the primary. No so good with win10. Successfully booting to usb drives in win10 sometimes works sometimes not. Cannot afford the uncertainty.

This along the line of what I was thinking about doing but not sure if it would create any issues? Also which wire - yellow, red, black or orange?

 

You'd have to cut both, Yellow (12v) and Red (5v).

 

Roy, when you get to my age, the psychokinetic skills are pretty weak and don't work quite as good as they use to!

 

Just the Force use you can !!!

 

That's an extreme look at things, but your system.

Good luck.

 

Not really considering some of the things I have to expose my system to which I know before hand may very well crash the entire system.

 

That's what I was thinking but a tad bit different. I recommend a docking station.....works the best IMO. Personally, I have a docking station built into my case and boy does it come in handy. Desktop docking stations are really inexpensive now days.

 

I do things a little different. After suffering a RAW condition on my data drive after a W10 upgrade, I disconnect the data drive by removing the sata cable rather than the power cable. I made it easier by mounting the HDD in the case with the connectors facing out rather than inside the case. I lean the side cover against the case for easy access (due to the frequent insider updates). Removable drive tray in front allows switching in/out either W10FCU or W10insider SSD, portable usb drive for storing iso and images. Power down, do the switch, disconnect the data HHD, swap the ssd < 15 seconds. YMMV

 

Of course,with FCU, you can set up protected access folders which you could store backups in.

Macrium Reflect Home (paid version) now has a feature called Macrium Image Guardian which is designed to keep images safe from ransonware/malware attacks. You can only delete backups from within Macrium. Of course, that will not help if a hacker got full remote control of pc.

I backup to an internal drive but periodically copy backups to an external drive that I only put online for making a secondary backup.

 

Really appreciate all the good ideas! After extensive research, I have elected to go with CountMike's suggestion and go with a removable hd bay. Will see how that goes! Thanks people!
Ron

 

Four bay Icy Dock came in today. Got her installed and can't believe I never looked at this before. Real time saver and not near as hard on the drives as the way I was doing it! Took my backup os drive out of the bay and put it in a drawer in less than 4secionds! Thanks again CountMike!
Ron

 

Glad you like it and find useful. I also have this on order now: