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Originally Posted by nns
Your motherboard most likely doesn't support hot-swappable drives. This is the reason why the drive didn't appear when Windows was booted up and you powered on/off the external drive, or by unplugging USB and plugging in via eSATA.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1
I have a Nexstar eSATA external enclosure as well, and it behaves just like yours - minus the part about having to format twice. I don't know why you had to do that, I only needed to format once. |
Yeah I didn't understand that. I took that drive out to put a bigger one in, so I was hoping all I needed to do was slide the old one into the enclosure and everything would be gravy. At least I didn't lose all the data, I was still able to transfer it through USB (took a bloody long time) before I formatted. But still what was weird was when i used USB to format it worked fine when USB was plugged in. Then I rebooted with esata, and windows detected the drive but windows said the drive needed to be formatted. After formatting when connect to esata everything works. Weird.
My mobo has an esata port on the back, wouldn't that mean its hotswappable?
I found a blurb off the ncix site
"This motherboard supports the next-generation hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. The external SATA port located at the back I/O provides smart setup and hot-plug functions. Easily backup photos, videos and other entertainment contents on external devices. "
Hotplug = hotswap?