I'm using a IDE disk-drawer in my WinXP machine. This allows me to
insert/remove IDE drives into my case easily. WinXP, however, thinks the
drive is permanent, so that if I want to remove one disk and install a
different one I have to shutdown, switch the disk, and then reboot. Can I
get WinXP to treat a given drive letter as a removable drive, so that I can
switch the disk-drawer without having to shutdown and reboot?

-Jack

If the hard drive is a Serial ATA drive, the using the Serial ATA connectors
(Power and data) the it should work with out needing to reboot.

If the hard drive is a standard drive and you are using the built-in IDE
connectors, the your can not make the drawer a "hot-swap" unit. You will
need to shutdown when ever you wish to change the drawer.

Y.

"Jack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm using a IDE disk-drawer in my WinXP machine. This allows me to
> insert/remove IDE drives into my case easily. WinXP, however, thinks the
> drive is permanent, so that if I want to remove one disk and install a
> different one I have to shutdown, switch the disk, and then reboot. Can I
> get WinXP to treat a given drive letter as a removable drive, so that I
can
> switch the disk-drawer without having to shutdown and reboot?
>
> -Jack
>
>
>

I have Serial ATA drives in an Intel hot swap cage on windows 2003 sbs. Well, hot swap don't work. i have to reboot. Ideally, I want to use the hot swap design of SATA to appear in the Removable Management MMC for backup purposes.
Help.