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silentdream   11-27-2007 at 08:21:14 PM

Hi All,

I just built a new system and I noticed Windows XP Pro sees my partition hard drive as a USB device. It shows up in my system tray as drive "C" and "D." Physically on the board the drive is connected via an SATA cable on the SATA 1 connector. Also at work, one of our Dell computer sees the hard drive as a USB device. It came like that.



Also, since on the topic of hard drives. I noticed when I replaced the power supply in my other computer, and connected evertyhing as it was before, when I boot my system, it's coming up asking me if I want to activiate RAID. I just it the enter key to continue booting to Windows XP. I disabled the Raid controller in Drvice Manager since I only have one hard drive and no Raid setup. The Raid feature is disabled in the BIOS. Also, the drive is connected via SATA on the SATA 1 controller on the board.

Any suggestions to remedy these issues?

I would appreciate any help.


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sturm   11-28-2007 at 04:44:31 PM
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SATA drives are hot-swappable just like USB devices. There is nothing wrong, just the way windows sees it.
I believe there is a reg edit that can be done to remove the drives from the list. Do a google search and I am sure it will show up.

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g-paw   11-29-2007 at 10:55:25 PM
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Did you disable RAID in the BIOS?

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