Making harddrives removable in Windows

darael · 12 Nov 2011 at 20:49

I have a SATA bay on my Corsair 650D, which allows me to plonk a harddrive on instantly. The trouble comes when I need to remove the drive - safely!

I have Intel Rapid Storage installed, but see no options to make the drive removable.

All I want is for an icon for one SATA port to appear, that allows me click it and it flushes the cache - allowing me to unplug the drive.

Raumarik · 12 Nov 2011 at 21:16

Is the SATA bay definately hot swap compatible? Some might let you swap out but they don't actually say they are hot swap.

darael · 12 Nov 2011 at 21:57

All I know is there is a SATA cable which connects to a SATA cable which then connects directly to my motherboard.

I could remove it before installing the Intel drivers. :/

Hyburnate · 12 Nov 2011 at 21:58

Do you need the drivers installed? ?

RJC · 12 Nov 2011 at 22:01

Is ACHI enabled in the BIOS, I needed this enabled to allow my drives to be shown and removed safely.

If you have not then you will need to do a Registry change in Windows.

darael · 12 Nov 2011 at 22:05

AHCI is definitely enabled, and was before I install the Intel drivers. It was only until I installed the Intel drivers I lost the ability to remove harddrives.

But even that's not such a problem, I'd just like to able to safely use the harddrive bay on my case.

Ynot · 21 Nov 2011 at 17:46

I can remove hard drives from my removable sata hard drive bay with this hotswap utility
version 5.0.0.0
http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm