Need help setting up Hot Swap in Windows 7

Have you formatted the drive once you installed it in the HotSwap bay.

When the HotSwap drive is installed does it show up in Disk Management?

This might help us. With your HotSwap drives plugged in.

Tutorial by Golden.

Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Hi,
Looks like rapid storage is wanting you to setup Raid or something :/
Which I have no idea what that is

I also put a 2.5 350gb hdd in my other ez swap evo's second tray and got nothing so this is an interesting thread :)
I use primarily the single tray to sway ssd's with os's on them to dual boot which it works but can't or really haven't had the time to figure out what's Raid setup and can it be changed swapped with another or shared with another os :/

Hot Swap has to be enabled in the Bios or UEFI for each motherboard SATA port you want to hot swap from. Of course, as already mentioned, any drive you want to hot swap also needs to initialized and formatted first to give it a drive letter.

Lady, good point on the bios settings. I forgot about those settings.

Layback Bear said:

Lady, good point on the bios settings. I forgot about those settings.

I cheated when I built my present computer and enabled all the SATA ports that were Hot Swap capable (the two Marvel ports were not). That has proven handy occasionally when fooling around inside the computer without having to shut down and restart multiple times.

I personally don't mind shutting down seems the safest way to swap out anyway
The odd thing I see is the only options in bios is raid/ intel rapid storage
I just haven't had the time to understand raid 0 from.... 10 :)

Many times I shut down the computer even using HotSwap.
To me HotSwap just makes it easier to to install ssd and remove them without opening the case.