Safely Remove Hardware

[Kev]

When I click on Safely Remove Hardware, the hardware list includes the PC's
hard disk drives. To avoid the risk of accidentally disabling a HDD, is it
possible to stop these appearing the list?

Kev

 

[Sharon F]

When I click on Safely Remove Hardware, the hardware list includes the PC's
hard disk drives. To avoid the risk of accidentally disabling a HDD, is it
possible to stop these appearing the list?

Kev

Have never seen that dialog screen do that. However, I did notice the other
night that there was a little check box next to something like "list
devices." It's in the bottom portion of the dialog. My box was not checked
and only relevant USB/Firewire items showed up for me to remove. Perhaps
your box is checked and that causes more devices to be listed?

 

[Kev]

When I click on Safely Remove Hardware, the hardware list includes the

Have never seen that dialog screen do that. However, I did notice the
other
night that there was a little check box next to something like "list
devices." It's in the bottom portion of the dialog. My box was not checked
and only relevant USB/Firewire items showed up for me to remove. Perhaps
your box is checked and that causes more devices to be listed?

The box (Display device components) is unchecked. If I tick it, it displays
all the HDD's individual partitions.

Kev

 

[Sharon F]

The box (Display device components) is unchecked. If I tick it, it displays
all the HDD's individual partitions.

Kev

Anything you need to add about your system's hard drives? How are they
connected? Do you use drive bays? Are they SCSI, IDE, SATA? Or are the
drives that shouldn't be showing completely internal?

For the HDDs in question, look at their properties: Right click the drive's
icon in My Computer and select Properties. Click the hardware tab and then
Properties again. On the screen that appears, click the Policies tab. For a
normal IDE drive this screen shows "Optimize for Quick Removal" and
"Optimize for peformance" as unavailable. If these settings are available
to you (they shouldn't be but this would be one explanation for your drives
showing up in Safe to Remove), move the dot from quick removal to
performance. That change should take them out of the Safe to Remove list.
May require a restart before you see that change.

 

[Kev]

When I click on Safely Remove Hardware, the hardware list includes the

Anything you need to add about your system's hard drives? How are they
connected? Do you use drive bays? Are they SCSI, IDE, SATA? Or are the
drives that shouldn't be showing completely internal?

Internal SATA drives, connected to SATA ports on the motherboard (Epox
9NPA+Ultra).

For the HDDs in question, look at their properties: Right click the
drive's
icon in My Computer and select Properties. Click the hardware tab and then
Properties again. On the screen that appears, click the Policies tab. For
a
normal IDE drive this screen shows "Optimize for Quick Removal" and
"Optimize for peformance" as unavailable. If these settings are available
to you (they shouldn't be but this would be one explanation for your
drives
showing up in Safe to Remove), move the dot from quick removal to
performance. That change should take them out of the Safe to Remove list.

They are already set at "Optimize for performance".

Kev