Safely Remove Hardware Shows C Drive

[ShawnVH1]

I just noticed my Vista machine that the Safely Remove Hardware icon is in
the system tray. What I'm perplexed by and a little worried about is that
there are 2 items in the tray that can be removed. One is the C/D Drive of
the computer and the other is the DVD/RW drive of the computer. I don't
think that this has always been there but I could be wrong. I have children
and would hate for one of them to 'accidentally' remove the C drive and then
the computer not work.

 

[BurrWalnut]

I don’t know if this will remove the icon but it’s worth looking. Go to the
Windows Orb (Start) type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter.

In the left column of the Graphical View where it states the Disk number,
right-click the device > Properties > Policies Tab. Here there are two
buttons to choose between; "Optimize for quick removal" and "Optimize for
performance". Choose ‘Optimize for Performance’.

 

[ShawnVH1]

I have looked at this and the Optimize for Performace box is checked already.
I really don't think that the remove hardware box and these items were there
before. I'm wondering if I should try to do a restore on the system?

Thanks for your help though.