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    My Ultrabay HDD will not hotswap. Help :(

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Xcalamento, Nov 14, 2007.

  1. Xcalamento

    Xcalamento Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the Ultrabay Adapter for my T61 and if I take it out and put my DVD drive in all works good, but then when I try to put back my HDD nothing happends.

    Also when I try to safely remove my hard drive by click the taskbar icon, it will always tell me that the drive is in use and it can't be removed. I have only like 90megs of data in it right now and no programs are installed to it. I disabled vista search indexing in that drive but still it tells me the drive is in use.

    I don't mind removing the drive unsafely, but I need it to hotswap so this is my main concern right now.
     
    Xcalamento, Nov 14, 2007
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    Do you have the easyeject software loaded?
     
    philfna, Nov 14, 2007
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    Xcalamento Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh! Yeah I trashed that. The funny part is that I had read about it before and said I will not uninstall that software. I guess I forgot it also worked for the Ultrabay and not only the docking stations. I'll put it back on.

    Thanks for the reply!
     
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    I suspect this will solve your problem.
     
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    Guess who is hot swapping like a champ? You got it! My Ultrabay HDD.

    That did the trick. Thanks philfna!
     
    Xcalamento, Nov 15, 2007
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    No problem -- I am just glad it works for you now.
     
    philfna, Nov 15, 2007
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