hard drivehotplugsatawindows 8.1
I have one hard drive inserted into a mobile rack. The hard drive is connected to the SATA port, which is configured with Hot Plug ON. However, I cannot see any way to flush buffers of this drive or something in the tray.
Why is this?
OS: Windows 8.1 Prof
MB: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H, cable is inserted into connector 5.
HDD: Western Digital WDC WD10EALS
I can plug in drive on hot, but can't rely I can hot plug-out.
How do I overcome this limitation?
As long as its not the OS drive you should be fine, since SATA is "hotswappable" though i have experienced corruptions of the FS once or twice. So i try to avoid it.
If you can set it in you BIOS and it boots without the SATA drives, probably for IDE / PATA hard drive has No Jumper present (which means it's on Slave Mode) or it's set to a Jumper which is on Master without Slave present / Master with non ATA compatible Slave.
Change the IDE drive jumper to Single or Master. Attaching a screenshot below:
Update:
Some links I promised with people having similar problems, but most say they can't boot through the SATA when IDE is connected. Your problem is exactly the opposite.
I simply think the BIOS has some issues, and sadly Abit has stopped making motherboards and has also stopped giving updates. You might need to find a decent workaround!
Best Answer
Use the small utility HotSwap!.
It puts an icon in your System Tray much like the Eject Removable Media icon and works the same way. When you eject a hot-swap disk, HotSwap! instruct Windows to prepare the disk for safe removal. If the disk is still in use or otherwise isn't ready for removal, HotSwap! will alert you.
You can also run HotSwap! from the command line, enabling its use in scripts. I use it in conjunction with hot-swap hard drives rotated out of servers for backup purposes and have had it running on production Hyper-V Host servers for several years without issue.
The beauty of this tool is that it's automating the process of using the Disk Management MMC tool to mark a disk Offline before disconnecting it. In other words, this is leveraging standard, built-in functionality within Windows to prepare your hot-swap disks for safe removal.