Enable Hotswap on Windows 7

The0ne

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Hello,

I was having problems with activating AHCI
(hotswapping with SATA and eSATA devices).
Normally you just have to activate this in your BIOS.
But then if you boot you'll have a blue screen!
This is beceause you first have to activate the windows
AHCI drivers. You can do this in the registry editor.
I made a reg file, so you don't have to make dangerous
manipulations in your registry.

The reg file with a 'Howto' in ReadMe.txt is in attachement.


The0ne
 

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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Me
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate, French
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3Ghz @ 4.20Ghz
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-EX48t-DQ6
Memory
2x 2Gb DDR3-1800Mhz OCZ
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD4870X2
Sound Card
No
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung T200
Hard Drives
- WD VelociRaptor 300Gb 10.000RPM
- Samsung SpinPoint F3 1Tb in Antec MX-1 (eSata)
- Seagate ST9500420AS 500Gb in SilverStone TS02B (eSata)
PSU
Cooler Master RealPower M-850 (850 watt)
Case
Antec Twelve Hundred
Cooling
Zalman CNPS 9500A blue LEDs
Has anyone tested this on a Windows Vista machine? I need to be able to use this on a Windows 7 machine as well as a Windows Vista machine. I thought it wasn't possible to enable hot-swap with these hard drives at all. If this works, this will be just amazing. I suppose I'll just have to cry for joy!! ;0)
 

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Nevermind.... - I misread part of this post

Well, I jumped the gun, and got overly excited about nothing. I thought I saw something about Samsung Spinpoint F3 drives in the original post, but apparently I did not. Those are the drives I was referring to. Unfornuately, they are not hot-swappable, so far as I can find anyway. It's very sad. :cry:
 

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