Hot Swapping Seagate HDD on ASUS Mobo

Hopefully this hasn't been asked a million times. I'm trying to set up a Seagate HDD for Hot Swapping on my new computer. The Mobo is an ASUS P8Z77-V LX running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I bought an HDD Rack for a 5.25" bay so I could swap the drive out easily. The Bios is set to AHCI and the SATA Port that the HDD is on is set to Enable Hot Swap. With the computer powered down, I plugged the drive in and it loaded right up. The only problem is that it's showing up as an Internal Hard Drive instead of a "Removable Storage" device. I'm under the assumption that it should appear here, that way I can Safely Remove the drive so it'll spin down, power off, and I can remove it without turning the computer off. At least that's my goal.

Can anyone shed any light on this, or point me in the right direction to get the computer to see this SATA Port as a Removable Storage Device?

The drive should be hot swappable if your sata controller is in AHCI mode, which it should be in the Asus Z77 by default. If you go to bios, advanced settings, sata configuration, you will see the drive if it is connected to an Intel port. There is an option to make it hot swappable there. Enable it, and you should be good. It will not be listed as a removable drive, but is still hot swappable, or at least should be.

If it is hot swappable you don't have to safely remove. At least I don't. If it is hot swap enabled in bios, just spin it down before removing it. Are you talking about an external enclosure or dock? I have mine that way, and I just turn the power to the external off. After that, it is off and disconnected from the computer. Remove it if you want to, the computer will not even realize it.

Does your board have an esata port? if it does, get an external sata enclosure with it's own power source, I use this one. It is about as fast as an internal hard drive and you can boot from it with an esata connection. there are many other choices too.
Thermaltake ST0005U-R Black External Enclosure - Newegg.com

If you don't have an esata port on your motherboard, get one of these with an external esata enclosure or dock.
Nippon Labs eSATA Bracket One SATA II and One eSATA 2 ports combo bracket for SATA I and SATA II Hard Drive Model ESATAB-C - Newegg.com

It will make your life much easier than what you are doing. I also have one of these, it works great, but I don't use it anymore. But it's perfect for what you are doing now.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817993031

Looks like a good dock. It should work well for you. It just does not have a power on/off switch.