Why does XP show me the "safe to remove current hardware" in the Sys Trat for a Raptor HDD?

[Caveman]

Installed as a SATA drive... Why would it think I want to remove it... It's my primary disk for programs and the OS??? How do I get rid of the annoying little Icon in my System try... I like a clean tray...

I thought about just answering that I wanted to remove it but then leave it alone... without trying to uninstall it... But I didn't want to hurt it... Any ideas, comments?

 

[ISAslot]

Right click on taskbar > properties > taskbar tab > customize

 

[Caveman]

Well, I don't just want to "hide"... Isn't there a way to delete those anoying icons in the sys tray...?

 

[LTC8K6]

If it's hot swappable, then it's hot swappable....

 

[spyordie007]

What kind of controller do you have it connected to?

 

[Caveman]

It's plugged into SATA 3 port on my MoBo = MSI Neo2Platinum...

 

[Philippine Mango]

Thats wierd but because of the nature of SATA, you could actually hot swap it. If you have windows XP install on the drive then I have no idea but I feel like you don't have XP installed on it so it would seem that you could "hot swap" it.

 

[Anubis08]

I have an MSI K8N Neo2 PLatinum as well, and my Seagate sata 160 gb harddrive shows up the same way. Maybe it is something in the mobo?

 

[Anubis08]

Forgot to mention, it is plugged in SATA 1 and is the only harddrive I have in my system.

 

[imported_bum]

Mine does the same thing (one boot sata). I would guess it's something in the chipset/controllers specific to the mobo. It can be annoying, but it certainly comes in handy if you ever swap drives.

 

[mikecel79]

Most SATA controller support hot swap drives now. Windows shows this for any devices that can be swapped without shutting the machine down. A server we have at work shows every PCI and PCI-x card plugged in as swappable. It's normal for Windows to even show your boot drive as swappable.