Hot swap: reboot to detect drive.

[heineygoat]

When I'm using my cases HDD dock, I can hear the drive spin up when I plug it in, but nothing happens and I have to reboot for the drive to show up. I've tried several different drives.

The drive won't even show in Disk Management. This isn't normal right? Kinda defeats the purpose of hot swap. I have a gigabyte z77x-ud3h and I believe its hooked up to one of the Intel SATA 2, 3 Gb/s ports.

[SMURG]

You have the port configured for AHCI/hot-swap in the BIOS right?

[ttam]

1) Right click on Computer

2) Go to Manage

3) Right click on Disk Management

4) Hit Re-scan Discs

 

You may also have to assign a drive letter to it

[heineygoat]

1) Right click on Computer

2) Go to Manage

3) Right click on Disk Management

4) Hit Re-scan Discs

 

You may also have to assign a drive letter to it

 

Yup I've done that. 

 

 

... The drive won't even show in Disk Management. 

 

 

 

You have the port configured for AHCI/hot-swap in the BIOS right?

 

Actually I'm not sure. I just loaded the optimized defaults then enabled quick boot and overclocked. I'll check my BIOS when my downloads have finished. 

 

[LogicalDrm]

Hot swap option isn't default on mobos settings. When you choose which connector to use as hotswap, better have drive in if you can't remember in which port hotswap bay is.

[heineygoat]

Okay solved. Thanks guys! Had to enable it for the marvell chip set in the bios.