ANY Hot Swap Drive Bay / Caddy, no Safely Remove Hardware or Eject options (missing) FIX!

Hi all,

I recently installed an Orico 5.25" Hot Swap drive bay for 3.5 inch hard drives (Orico 1106SS).


Issue:

Once I loaded a 3.5" hard drive into the bay and powered it on, my Windows detected it fine and I was able to initialise it and use it without issues.

However, there was no option to "Safely Remove Hardware" option in the system tray. Nor was there an "Eject" option when right clicking the hard drive in "My Computer".

After many hours of checking that: (a) the "Plug n Play" service was working, (b) re-installing Intel's Rapid Storage Technology (RST) driver and (c) checking my BIOS settings; I finally found a solution which works just as good, if not better!


FIX:

Download and install the software, HotSwap! by Kazuyuki Nakayama.

"It does the same thing as you can remove device from Device Manager but it provides much friendly user interface as you remove the removable device from the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hot-swapped, so you can use SATA/eSATA drive as a removable device much alike USB/IEEE1394 drive."

LINK = http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm


IMPORTANT NOTES:

Please visit the above link to learn how to use the software!

If you are using Windows 2000, use version 2.0.0.0.

If you are using Windows XP or Server 2003, use version 5.0.0.0.

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