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Old Nov 30, 2008, 02:48 PM   #5
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You have to go into your motherboard's BIOS and make sure you enable the option to allow the ddrive to be hot swappable, most modern motherboards have this option. Some boards call it "SATA Mode" or "AHCI". This will allow you to hot-swap the drive.
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