New SATA drive problem, always a "safely remove hardware" icon in panel

[aguydude]

There's always a Safely Remove Hardware icon in the windows system tray(the little panel on the far right of the taskbar, with the clock and date in it) much like an icon for a USB drive, only it's for my harddrive. Is this normal for SATA drives? I'm afraid that if I acciditally click on it and click "Remove hardware" my drive would lose all its data.

[Vertigo Acid]

Nope, no worry, you can safely ignore it

[NickC19]

If you want to disable this notification for your SATA drives, here's a page that has instructions for doing so:

http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2006/08/safely-remove-hardware/