Sata "safely remove hardware"

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Cuse313

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I have two hdds in my box. One is IDE that has the os and most of the programs on it. The other is an sata I. I just switched from having the sata as the main to the secondary as part of a reformat. Now in windows my sata drive shows up as hardware that i can choose to safely remove. Is this normal or did i do something wrong?

Amd athlon 2.2 ghz
Socket 754 mobo
Windows xp home 32 bit
40 gb sata I wd cavier hdd
40 gb IDE maxtor
 
There is a tweak you can do in the registry to make that go away for that device. When i had that problem on a client pc, it had to do with the nvidia controller. I'll see if i can find it for you.

edit - Try This

Click Start > Run and type:
regedit
Press ENTER
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata
Right-click in the right hand pane and choose New > DWORD
Create a new DWORD value:
DisableRemovable
Right-click on this new value and choose Modify and change the value to 1
Close Regedit
Restart Windows
 
It's normal, but as r00k said, you can disable it.

You get that message when your drive and controller (in this case your motherboards onboard SATA) are Hot-Swap compatible. Which means you can add or remove SATA drives while the machine is running.
 
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