Why is Sata Drive appearing as "Safely Removeable Hardware"

[Namael]

I just put together an amd 64 2800 comp with an asus k8n-e and a WD 120gb sata drive. I have never used a sata before so I don't know if this is normal. What basically happenned is after I installed the chipset drivers for the nvidia nforce, windows recognized the hard drive as "safely removeable hardware" and shows an icon in the taskbar which comes up as the WD hard drive as a removeable drive. Is this normal? The safely removeable thing is like what happens when you instal a pcmia (sp?) card on a laptop. Everything is running fine but I really would like to fix this or remove the icon is possible. Any help?

 

[cubanx]

Originally posted by: Namael
I just put together an amd 64 2800 comp with an asus k8n-e and a WD 120gb sata drive. I have never used a sata before so I don't know if this is normal. What basically happenned is after I installed the chipset drivers for the nvidia nforce, windows recognized the hard drive as "safely removeable hardware" and shows an icon in the taskbar which comes up as the WD hard drive as a removeable drive. Is this normal? The safely removeable thing is like what happens when you instal a pcmia (sp?) card on a laptop. Everything is running fine but I really would like to fix this or remove the icon is possible. Any help?

I have the "Safely remove hardware" alway's hidden since I have two external drives alway's listed in there but I just checked and my SATA 74GB Raptor I installed last weekend is listed in there so I guess it's normal.

Just hide the Icon by right clicking your task bar and go to properties and then customize. You then can pick which icons you want to show/hide . Click the Icon and a drop down menu will give you choices

 

[Skippy81]

Yes, it is normal. One of serial ata's selling points is that such devices are hot-swappable, unlike IDE drives which must be disconected while the PC is powered down. Windows still likes to know that a device will be disconected. however, as unplugging a drive when it is being accessed can cause data loss. and/or instability. Only hide the icon if you don't intend to regulary hot-swap the drive.

 

[Namael]

Cool Thanks guys =)