Windows Vista thinks that system drive C: is removable...

[Ichinisan]

On a fresh install of Windows Vista on a SATA hard drive and a SATA-native motherboard, the drive shows up in the "Safely Remove Hardware" utility even though it is not removable. It wastes time and hurts my productivity because I have to look through several non-removable devices, which should not show there, each time I need to stop/remove a devices that *is* removable.

There must be some way to selectively hide devices that shouldn't be in the list at all. At the very least, Microsoft needs to update the utility so that it does not show the system drive or pretend that it can be "stopped" while Windows is in use.

Any tips?

 

[postmortemIA]

It is not vista, it is SATA drivers, my guess nForce?

 

[Schadenfroh]

the solution

 

[Ichinisan]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
It is not vista, it is SATA drivers, my guess nForce?

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
the solution

Thanks!

Still, I think that MS needs to make sure that the utility does not ever show the boot drive containing Windows as a removable drive.

It's annoying already that a fresh, clean install of Windows could deny me when I try to safely stop/remove a USB device that I *know* is not in use.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Ready boost enabled?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Ichinisan

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
It is not vista, it is SATA drivers, my guess nForce?

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
the solution

Thanks!

Still, I think that MS needs to make sure that the utility does not ever show the boot drive containing Windows as a removable drive.

It's annoying already that a fresh, clean install of Windows could deny me when I try to safely stop/remove a USB device that I *know* is not in use.

It stops you if something has a file handle open to the device, grab filemon and see what is in use.

 

[Ichinisan]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Ichinisan

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
It is not vista, it is SATA drivers, my guess nForce?

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
the solution

Thanks!

Still, I think that MS needs to make sure that the utility does not ever show the boot drive containing Windows as a removable drive.

It's annoying already that a fresh, clean install of Windows could deny me when I try to safely stop/remove a USB device that I *know* is not in use.

It stops you if something has a file handle open to the device, grab filemon and see what is in use.

And I have seen several cases where Windows itself is at fault, for no apparent reason on a fresh/updated install. It's a problem with both XP and Vista.

 

[bsobel]

And I have seen several cases where Windows itself is at fault, for no apparent reason on a fresh/updated install. It's a problem with both XP and Vista.

Again, check filemon to see what files are in use. I'm pretty familiar with the unmount volume api and everytime I've seen this there where files in use (even if they weren't obvious such as the indexer working at the time)

Bill