Jak bezpiecznie usunąć, wypiąć dysk SATA

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Ten program jakiś specjalnie magiczny nie jest, wyłącza tylko dany dysk w menadżerze urządzeń. Tak czy inaczej zawsze to łatwiej niż ręcznie grzebać za każdym razem. Cóż jeśli to komuś poprawi samopoczucie...

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SATA: Hot Plugging Drives Under Windows 2000/XP

This feature is not explicitly highlighted in our current drivers, but all SATA controllers from Silicon Image do support hot plug capability. To remove a drive from a powered up system, do the following:
Enter the Windows Device Manager (through Control Panel or right clicking on My Computer and going to Properties)
Go to Disk Drives and find the disk you want to remove
Right click on the desired disk drive and select Remove/Disable

After performing this operation, you can remove the hard drive without risk of losing any data that is currently stored in cache memory.

To plug in a new SATA drive in the array, you just need to plug in the power and serial cables and Windows will automatically detect the new HD. NOTE: If you are re-attaching a drive after a remove operation as explained above, you must make sure that the HD is power cycled (power cable unplugged) before re-attaching the HD serial data cable.
Comments/Special Instructions:

It is not recommended to perform these hot plug/unplug actions on earlier versions of Windows such as Win9x or WinME since system lockups can occur.