Well, I finally figured out how to get a Fantom Esata hard drive to be recognised in Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. You have to right click drives from device manager and scan for hardware changes (see above).
This is hardly acceptable from a user standpoint. I had to google this. Then, I wanted to know if it's possible to unmount the drive (sort of like stopping a USB device). Some esata drives are hot-swappable, but some are not. It depends on the esata controller. Now, I'm using an esata port on my Gigabyte mainboard, so I have no idea if it is hotswappable. According to this post on a MS site, it's best to shut down the computer before turning off the drive!
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