Hot-Swapping SATA Drives?

Question

I installed a hot-swapping SATA dock. It just plugs into a SATA port and power, and you slide a SATA drive into it. Supposedly you can do hot-swapping with AHCI in Windows 10.

The problem is, when I take a drive out, Windows doesn't know that drive is not still there. It doesn't recognize the new drive. How can I make Windows look at the SATA port and learn there's a new drive there?

Answer 1

hot swap a hobo's **** LOL

Answer 2

Why do you love Islamists

Answer 3

Technically SATA interface is hot swappable but in reality is not practical.

Firstly you would have to be sure that there is no data activity going on to the drive, and Windows is not written to detect this disconnection. so will probably not recognise it. It will however work for a drive connected to the USB ports.

Answer 4

I don't care what anybody tells you! Never ever hot swap a data device Evan if it has an interface that says you can.



Don't listen to me the oldest PC doctor on the planet and you will get toasted mother board eventually! A sata hot swap should connect through the USB port never the sata mother board port! Never. The sata port runs off bios

And that's one tiny delicate chip as fragile as glass!



Don't set the bios to plug and play on the sata port there is such a setting but as I said this one scrawny chip starts your whole computer.





Don't mess with it! Use the USB hard drive interface which is made to plug and unplug