Windows 7 and Removable Hard Drives due to AHCI - Update: Solved!

nycxandy

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Since I have AHCI enabled and my internal SATA hard drives are now hot-swappable, they are listed as removable devices and thus the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon shows up in my taskbar. Is there a workaround to this by removing them from this removable list so that my hard drives no longer show up (besides disabling AHCI or hiding the notification icon)?

Thanks!

Update: I just figured it out. I installed the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager and they are now gone!
 
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