My pc won't detect HDD without reboot windows.

[Sill]

I have a spare HDD. Sometime i just wanted to hook it up to back-up files but i have to reboot windows everytime.
how do i let my pc detect the hdd while it running?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Sill,

This should be an internal drive right?
See if you have this hot plug feature in BIOS. If you do, then you can enable it.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[Sill]

Thank you for your reply,
yes it's an internal 3.5' drive, sata port.
hot-plug feature already enabled in BIOS
the drive only shows up in diskmgmt/devmgmt after reboot.

 

[Sill]

i'm not sure what i've messed in BIOS but after i load the bios' default setting,re-enable hot-plug, it works.