i just made a computer and my problem is that my main harddrive shows up in the SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE... How Do you Get it off that list because i do not want my friends to eject the main harddrive and maybe crash the computer... i am using windows XP PRO SP2. please answer this question with instructions. the best, helpful, safest way will get voted as best answer... Thank You and please hurry. time is important to me!
2006-07-07 18:59:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Randy is almost Right. SATA 1 and 2 drives show up as removable drives on pc's running Nvidia Nforce chipsets. If you remove the Nvidia IDE SW driver, it will dissappear. I have never tried to remove my harddrive in this manner but if it works like a flash drive windows will not allow you to disconnect the main drive in that fashion because files on the drive are still in use.
I will try to find the link at Nvidia site and come edit my answer if i find it.
EDIT: I came back.
Go here
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1449
in case it does not work here is what it says. Although it's nvidia it will be true for all SATA drives running the drivers that came with the chipset/motherboard.
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Question
SATA Hard drive shows up as removable device with
NVIDIA nForce driver within Windows XP.
Answer
SATA devices are defined as removable devices. All SATA devices will show up in the "safely remove hardware" wizard because NVIDIA supports the SATA Hot Swap function. This is not a problem or bug but by design and is expected behavior. Please note that Windows will NOT allow you to remove a boot drive / system volume within this Windows utility.
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So there you go, no need to worry.
2006-07-08 01:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by jason b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your drive shows up in the Safely Remove Hardware, indicates it is being detected as a "removable drive.
You will need to check the settings on the actual drive, and make sure the small jumper is set to "cable select" and the BIOS detects it as your primary drive.
If it is a removable drive eg: in a caddy, and its physically mounted inside, I suggest that you don't use the caddy unless absolutely necessary.
2006-07-08 02:06:53 · answer #2 · answered by OzHawk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is normal for Serial ATA 2 Harddrives. At least it is with Geforce 4 chipsets.
2006-07-08 04:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by randy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Safely Remove Hardware usually refers to a USB device. Is this a USB Hard Drive? Maybe it's not your hard drive and it might be a USB device. If it is not a USB hard drive, then I don't think you have to worry about this. Maybe it's a flash drive or card reader or something. Hope this can help you!
2006-07-08 02:04:05 · answer #4 · answered by b_jay82 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi
try to close the message from the startup
start- run- msconfig-startup- remove the particular check box
gazy
2006-07-08 02:02:26 · answer #5 · answered by gazy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋