"Safely Remove Hardware", but my hard drive?

hijodeltiger

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I don't know what happened, but when I first installed windows that little icon in the taskbar notification area didn't appear.
now after several updates my hard drive somehow wants to be safely removed.
is this something bad, or wrong. can I get rid of it?
 

sleepdeprived82

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If it is a sata II drive they are hot plugable which is why it is showing as a removable drive. It will appear once the nvidia chipset drivers are installed. There is nothing wrong with it, just means you can pull the blighter out on the fly so to speak, not recomended if its your os drive though :lol:

If its not a sata II drive then I dont know
 

digitaldreams

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If you have a Nforce4 Based Motherboard and your sata drives are showing up in Safely Remove Hardware, this registry hack will allow you to fix it.

1. Click Start -> Run
2. Execute regedit
3. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata

4. Click Edit
5. Select New > DWORD value
6. Name this DWORD: DisableRemovable
7. Double click this new DWORD and set its value to one (1).
8. Close Regedit and reboot

Source: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1794/sata_drives_safely_remove_hardware_notification/