The hard drive is IDE

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Ben

It is an IDE hard drive, and drawer. It came with no
cd's just short intructions that briefly mentioned it can
be hot swappable if you set the hard drive as removable
media. I would imagine that there is some place in
windows to do this, but i dont know where.
 
Maybe as a drive "D:" but NOT as a drive "C:"

There should be an OS dismount for this. What, I don't know.

Dave
 
Ben said:
It is an IDE hard drive, and drawer. It came with no
cd's just short intructions that briefly mentioned it can
be hot swappable if you set the hard drive as removable
media. I would imagine that there is some place in
windows to do this, but i dont know where.
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See the reply to your earliest post by Ghostrider. The drawer should have an
USB or a Firewire connection. Windows 2000 will automatically recognize the
USB (or Firewire) connection if the computer is so equipped and it is enabled
in bios setup. If so capable, with both the computer and the drawer powered
on, connecting them via the USB (or Firewire) port Windows should see it as
a movable drive (because it was not mounted when Windows initially booted)
and would assign it the next available drive letter. Simple...right? Hope your
setup works this easily.
 
You will probably want to convert the disk(s) you want to be hot
swappable to Dynamic, instead of Basic, in the Disk Management area of
the Computer Management utility. Also make sure the controller will
also support hot swap.

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