Hot swap problem of 2nd Hard Drive in Ultrabay Slim on T60

[milstein]

I pressed Fn + F9 and select to eject the HDD inserted into the slim bay. But I always get the error message "The device cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later"

Can someone who succeeded fixing a hot-swapping issue in T60 tell me how to fix that?

By the way, Happy New Year!

[suikoden2003]

do you have something opeed from that HDD, cuz that happens if you dont close everything from that HDD and try to eject it. FOLDERS counts too.

[mgo]

I pressed Fn + F9 and select to eject the HDD inserted into the slim bay. But I always get the error message "The device cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later"

Can someone who succeeded fixing a hot-swapping issue in T60 tell me how to fix that?

By the way, Happy New Year!

Indexing can be a culprit. Uncheck the indexing choice in that drive's properties.

I also found that if the drive has a HDD password done out of the ThinkPad Bios setup hot swapping does not work, because the machine will wait for a password. That requires a cold start after inserting the ultra bay drive.

[milstein]

I did not have any folder opened nor did I set any password on that Ultrabay hard drive in BIOS
The symptom is: if I have the ultrabay hard drive during booting up, I cannot hot-swap it; but if I have it plugged in after getting into windows, I can hot swap it

[scoot1212]

XP or Vista?

[ducky2802]

I leave the ultrabay hdd in my t60 all the time (from cold boot too), and have absolutely no problems hot swapping, unless, as mentioned above, I happen to have a folder or file open that uses the second hdd.

xp pro, indexing is enabled, oem factory install with basic cad/math/office programs, no programs I can think of that use the secondary hdd, and no pagefiles.

[milstein]

XP or Vista?

Is on XP Pro SP2