SATA hard drives shows up as a Removable Storage in XP

[moochu]

I have a Maxtor SATA 200 gig hardrive running windows XP. The hardrive always shows up as a Removable Drive. How can i get it to be a standard drives instead of a removable hardrive?

Moochu

Computer Spec:
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2
CPU: AMD ATHLON 64 3200
MotherBoard: GIGABYTE GA-K8NS 939
Ram: 1Gig DDR 400
Harddrive: Maxtor Sata 200Gig

 

[imported_MooGoo]

I get that too, it always tempts me to try to remove it and see what happens...

 

[BigPete]

SATA drives are hot-swappable if you have the proper hardware. So, it's actually working correctly. In your device manager, windows does recognize it as a standard drive. The feature is working the way its supposed to. You dont need to do anything.

 

[thunderroller]

chk the connections.there may be power drop

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: thunderroller
chk the connections.there may be power drop

It has nothing to do with power. This is completely normal for SATA, as was already stated.

To the OP: This question has been answered a thousand times in these forums already. The search button is your friend.

 

[ayeco]

Is there a way to turn it off? As in I don't want my wife to turn it off when she really means to remove the camera .

 

[LBmtb]

Didnt know they were hot swappable. That's pretty cool. (I dont have a sata drive yet)

 

[imported_Kensai]

It's part of the SATA spec. You can't really change it.

 

[azel]

> Didnt know they were hot swappable. That's pretty cool. (I dont have a sata drive yet)

It's good to make sure you get controllers and drive which are compatible with hot swapping;
most of the first generation SATA hardware didn't support hot swapping.

 

[Jeff7]

Geez, if only I had that problem. I have a SATA drive in my one system, but it's in a removable drive bay, and Windows doesn't recognize it as removable. I need a utility from Silicon Image to disable the write cache for safe swaps.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Geez, if only I had that problem. I have a SATA drive in my one system, but it's in a removable drive bay, and Windows doesn't recognize it as removable. I need a utility from Silicon Image to disable the write cache for safe swaps.

I have almost the same problem! My SATA drive is my DATA drive, and it is mounted in an external drive case connected to a SATA port on the mobo. Consequently, XP sees it as an internal drive. I really want it to be seen as "External" so I can turn off caching to eliminate delayed write wrrors.