SATA Hot-swap?

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oddmanout

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The case im using (cooler master 960 ii advanced) has a SATA bay on-top of the case, and im looking to use the SATA hot-swap feature of my Mobo.

Im running a MSI P67A-G45, set to AHCI and the SATA connection on the top of the case has hot plug set to enabled. However, when I plug the drive in I do not see any options in Windows to safely remove the disk.

I know some nForce chipsets used to show SATA drives under "Safely Remove Hardware". Is there such functionality with this board? Ive never had a use for hot swapping SATA drives until now, what is the best practice?

Thanks.
 
I've had luck with different boards, by having a drive in the hotswap bay at boot.
 
I think there is something in the BIOS with those MSI boards you can change a setting to.
 
I'll take another look. To clarify should there be an option within windows to eject the drive?
 
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There should be something like this in the bios, Hot Plug. Then you would see something in Windows.
 
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