Safely Remove Hard Drives? Windows?

[ben johnson]

You know when you put in a USB jump drive or any temporary mass storage device in the bottom right an icon will appear with a green arrow. You can right click that icon and "safely remove hardware".

I just installed windows, ran all of the updates, etc. Windows is installed on my SATA hard drive, internal. All of my hard drives are internal. I have two on SATA and one on IDE. Its telling me I can safely remove my SATA hard drives.

Should it be doing this? If not, how can I fix this?

BTW This is on the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe

 

[ben johnson]

I recently found this on the internet:

The SATAII specification allows for SATAII drives to be hot-swappable. Yes, doesn't really mater when talking about internal drives, but this is why you can get PCI controller cards for external SATA drives.

Haven't tried it with my machine (though I may do so once I get back home), but I think that if you actually do select the safely remove device option, windows should pick up that the device is currently in use and not let you do it anyways.


Does this make sense and is this why?

Thanks.

 

[metallicafan]

I believe this is an issue with the Nvidia IDE drivers. Hard drives have have been show as "removable devices" in the last few versions of the nForce chipset drivers. If you go to the Control Panel and then Add/Remove Software and remove the Nvidia IDE driver this problem will be fixed. Windows will then just use the default Microsoft IDE driver. I havent found much performance difference between the two drivers so I personally use the default Microsoft drivers. I don't know what would happen if you "remove" your HD. Ive never tried.