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WD Raptor SATA Hd's showing up as removable in XP

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MurdarMachene

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I have two western digital raptors, one 74 gig and one 36 gig. I got both working fine it seems, everything is alright with them. However, this icon that shows a drive with a green arrow over it going left (the safely remove hardware icon) is showing up in my taskbar. Windows thinks my drives are hot slot removeable drives, and this is annoying the crap out of me. I want the icon to go away and for this remove hardware thing to not be an option whatsoever with these drives, as I never plan to remove them. Any tips?

Oh yeah, one more thing...like an idiot, I picked to install the Silicon Image, Inc. - Storage - Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller update from the microsoft automatic updates page....for some reason I thought it might fix my problem here, but instead now the computer keeps trying to install this "SI Pseudo Device SCSI Processor Device". I have no idea what this is, I don't think I even have one, and I want this to stop trying to install. I remove the device, but with a reboot the thing pops back up again, wanting to install. Any ideas on how to remove this one?
 
The reason you're getting the "remove this device" is because with the proper hardware, SATA drives are hot-swappable. I don't know of a way to disable that feature (unless maybe there's a bios setting to disable it).
 
You can right click on the taskbar and select properties>then customize>then click on it once to highlight it and then from the drop down list select always hide.

This will hide the safely remove hardware thing for all hot-plug devices though. I don't think you can disable it just for the hard drive as poppyq said, they are hot-swappable drives.
 
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