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To Hot-swap drives in a computer means to be able to remove a disk drive and replace it with another without negatively affecting what is happening on the computer ("without losing anything").

It also means to just remove a hard drive that is no longer necessary or to just add one that will be needed.

To be able to hot swap safely, the hardware must be able to handle the change electronically without damage and the computer system software must be able to recognize that a drive was removed and/or that a drive was mounted and must know how to make it available to running programs.

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