Windows 10: Hotswapping drives.

So recently I tried hotswapping sata hard drives and I have it enabled in bios and it used to work but for dynamic drives the offline button is grayed out and if you unplug them anyway you will gsod with UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION and if you plug in a basic non dynamic drive it will mount as read only. is there any fix for this?

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Hotswap drive displayed as Invalid in Disk Management, and remains inaccessible

I've just bought an Asus F650UD laptop, and have been trying to connect my currently in-use hard drive to it via a dock that hooks up with one of the SATA ports. The drive does get recognized and is displayed in the Safely Remove Hardware list, however it
doesn't appear in This PC, and cannot be accessed from anywhere. Opening up Disk Management reveals the following screen:





As you can see, the hotswap drive I've been trying to connect is labeled Disk 1 here. While it was recognized by Safely Remove Hardware, here it's shown as Invalid and remains uninteractable. Opting to reactivate the disk would return an error message stating
that invalid disks are not allowed that operation. So I took a step further and checked the status of the SATA ports in the system BIOS, and the only option shown with it was AHCI - the system default, with no alternatives whatsoever, nothing that says "Enable
hotswap/hotplug". So what exactly must I do to make this drive accessible? I've tried out all the methods I know above, and none of them have worked.

 

Hotswapping SATA HD's on Intel chipsets

If you have an older motherboard with an Intel chipset like mine (ICH5R) and want to have hotswap capability without tripping errors in event viewer, try this:

My setup uses a Intel D875PBX motherboard and two Thermaltake trayless internal SATA trays.

Use a power supply that has SATA power connectors - stay away from the four-pin molex adapers! I found I could not get clean hotswapping without the +3.3v line! Yes I know it's listed in the specs as not required, but it seems to make a huge difference for me.

The Thermaltake tray comes with a "special" adapter that allows activity and power-on LED functions, and it works as stated, other than hotswapping not working due to missing +3.3v power. I rather have good hotswapping than LED indicators, so I don't use the adapter and instead plug my power supply SATA power connector directly into the tray.

I use a freeware utility called "Hotswap!" (google it) and it gives me a icon in the system tray that allows clean removal of the SATA drives and also has a "detect hardware changes" function, since the ICH5 series controllers dont support hotswapping natively.

The end result is windows XP (pro) that allows hotswapping, I've been using this setup for 3 months now and transfering alot of audio data and swapping SATA drive on a regular basis and have not have any data loss problems. My logs are clean too.

I have to give Wikkipedia credit for steering me in the right direction... a Google search gave me a link to Wikki on the subject of SATA, and the Wikki suggested that +3.3v may be needed for hot swapping.

Thanks Wikki!

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
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