Main HD (SATA) listed as Removable Drive??!

[BJanak]

I had this posted in Tech Support, but since it could be anywhere from a hardware configuration (jumper?) to some setting in Windows I'm hoping someone here may have an idea.

I just put my comp together last night and I didn't notice this until about the 3rd reboot of installing XP Prof. On the Removable Icons button on the taskbar, ie the thing that comes on when you hook in a jump/usb drive, etc, it lists my main HD a SATA 160gig WD. I have no other HD's in the comp, and nothing hooked up besides a mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Here's the systems specs below. Thanks for any help as I'm rather afraid one day of wanting to actually remove a device and clicking the HD. What will my comp do when it suddenly cuts the connection to the Main Drive it's working from and on?? Thanks again.

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe MB
AMD Athlon64 3500+
BFG 6600GT OC Vid Card
2X Muskin 512 RAM 3200
SB Audigy ZS
160gig SATA WD HD
DVD-R/RW CD-R/RW NEC
OCZ 420W PS

-Bret

 

[CalvinHobbes]

I'm pretty sure my Raptor shows up like that as well. It's doubtful you could ever "stop" it or "disconnect" it since the OS is using the drive.

 

[fishmonger12]

your question was already answered in tech support.

all sata drives should be like this. i'm looking at my wd360gd and wd800jd right now.

 

[MrControversial]

All that means is that your SATA drive supports hot-swapping which means that you can change them out without powering the system down.