Why does my new SATA drive appear in "Safely Remove Hardware"?

[bupkus]

It's my only internal hard drive.

 

[tjpark1111]

I think it's cuz ur mobo and ur new drive support SATA Hot Swap, but don't take my word for it cuz I'm no expert.

 

[boomerang]

It's an NVIDIA thing.

There is no "cure". You have to live with it.

 

[MplsBob]

I have seen several units that go into a 5 1/4"' bay and let you slide in SATA drives for short term use and then slide them out. Some of these units indicate they are hot swappable, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that this depended upon which mother board and BIOS you have.

 

[krotchy]

SATA is a hot swappable socket, its alot easier to hot swap E-SATA things than SATA for obvious reasons, but you technically can do it.

 

[Bob Anderson]

Bupkus:

It is because you have write caching enabled for windows and the SATA drive. This is the default and you should not change it. There is an easy way to disable write caching and thus the SRH icon will disappear, but I don't recommend it because it will degrade disk performance.

If out of curiosity you want to know, I'll be happy to tell you.

-Bob

 

[The Boston Dangler]

If you have an nvidia motherboard, then the thing is appearing because you installed nvidia's IDE driver. Uninstalling and going with the default Windows driver will get rid of it. There will be no observable performance or function difference.

 

[corkyg]

And now there are hot swappable mobile SATA racks. This really is a nice development. You can have separate drives for different OS's and individuals and hot plug them in.

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