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So I installed a new SATA HDD and now I get a...

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vtohthree

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edit: Thanks, it's resolved now, I just wanted to confirm that it was in fact normal with other SATA drive users.

As the title and topic summary read, I installed my new hard drive and after installing it(it is the only hard disk drive on my system) I get a "safely remove hardware" prompt in the notification area on the bottom right corner of the default win xp layout(I didn't move my task bar around, etc..)

Basically, it appears to detect my sata drive as removeable hardware, just like if you plugged in..say a usb flash drive.

What's up with it? Any ideas, again for those who might've not read thoroughly, this is my one and only HDD in this system...fresh install, formatted and loaded win xp.

Thanks.
 
SATA hard drives are hot swappable.
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This is true, but generally the icon doesn't appear on my system. But then I really haven't found it to be predictable one way or the other. Like right now, I have several removable devices connected, but the icon is not visible.
 
The SRM tray icon will show up after chipset drivers are loaded on certain mainboards. You can simply hide the icon by right-clicking the notification area, and selecting Properties. Under the Notification area heading, click Customize. Find the Safely Remove Hardware icon and select Always hide in the Behavior column next to it (press OK and Apply to back out).
 
When I first built by system the removable drive icon listed my hard drives as removable drives. Now it doesn't. If you click it won't let you eject it anyway.
 
If the *drive and controller* supports hot-swap, SATA drives attached to it will show up under 'Safely Remove Hardware'. For some reason, this causes people to flip out and post in GH.

However, you cannot 'remove' the drive that contains the system/boot partition. If Windows was a little smarter, it would not show the boot drive as 'removable', but alas, it is not. You should be able to actually hot-swap any other SATA HDs, however.
 
Originally posted by: Matthias99
If the *drive and controller* supports hot-swap, SATA drives attached to it will show up under 'Safely Remove Hardware'. For some reason, this causes people to flip out and post in GH.

However, you cannot 'remove' the drive that contains the system/boot partition. If Windows was a little smarter, it would not show the boot drive as 'removable', but alas, it is not. You should be able to actually hot-swap any other SATA HDs, however.
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Yep.. the drive that Windows is installed on is optimized for "performance" instead of "quick removal". Write caching is enabled on the system drive. Write caching is disabled on a drive that is configured for "quick removal".

Under Device Manager, you can see the Policies for the disk drives in your system.
Also note, if a drive is optimized for "Quick Removal", you do not have to use the "Safe Removal" icon.
 
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