diff --git a/instances/templates/add_instance_volume.html b/instances/templates/add_instance_volume.html
index 6b0fed3..9ae808a 100644
--- a/instances/templates/add_instance_volume.html
+++ b/instances/templates/add_instance_volume.html
@@ -84,11 +84,7 @@
                                 </div>
                             </div>
                             <div class="modal-footer">
-                                {% ifequal status 5 %}
-                                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-success pull-right" name="add_new_vol">{% trans "Add Volume" %}</button>
-                                {% else %}
-                                    <button class="btn btn-lg btn-success pull-right disabled">{% trans "Add Volume" %}</button>
-                                {% endifequal %}
+                                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-success pull-right" name="add_new_vol">{% trans "Add Volume" %}</button>
                             </div>
                         </form>
                         </div>
@@ -142,11 +138,7 @@
                                 </div>
                             </div>
                             <div class="modal-footer">
-                                {% ifequal status 5 %}
-                                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-success pull-right" name="add_existing_vol">{% trans "Add Volume" %}</button>
-                                {% else %}
-                                    <button class="btn btn-lg btn-success pull-right disabled">{% trans "Add Volume" %}</button>
-                                {% endifequal %}
+                                 <button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn-success pull-right" name="add_existing_vol">{% trans "Add Volume" %}</button>
                             </div>
                         </form>
                         </div>
diff --git a/vrtManager/instance.py b/vrtManager/instance.py
index 71e0fd2..1470f5a 100644
--- a/vrtManager/instance.py
+++ b/vrtManager/instance.py
@@ -488,12 +488,11 @@ class wvmInstance(wvmConnect):
           <target dev='%s' bus='%s'/>
         </disk>
         """ % (source, target, targetbus)
+        if self.get_status() == 1:
+            self.instance.attachDeviceFlags(xml_disk, VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE)
+            self.instance.attachDeviceFlags(xml_disk, VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CONFIG)
         if self.get_status() == 5:
-            devices = tree.find('devices')
-            elm_disk = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_disk)
-            devices.append(elm_disk)
-            xmldom = ElementTree.tostring(tree)
-            self._defineXML(xmldom)
+            self.instance.attachDeviceFlags(xml_disk, VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CONFIG)
 
     def detach_disk(self, dev):
         tree = ElementTree.fromstring(self._XMLDesc(0))