Harddrive has autorun option in properties

[spluff]

My Hard Drive partioned into 3 partions C D and E all have the autorun
option in the properties tab. I have checked for the autorun.inf file
and have found nothing.

Does anyone know why I have this option in my hard drive properties?
and how to remove it?

My Hard drive is a Samsung Spinpoint SATA2 drive.
OS is XP sp2
Mobo is Asus a8n-dlx

Would really appreciate help on this.

Thanks

 

[Ron Sommer]

Is the type shown as local disk or removable media?

A sata drive can be hot swappable.
Pata drives are detected in the Bios, so they can't be hot swappable.
http://www.asrock.com/news/SATA_HotPlug.pdf?akcija=recenzija&id=39

 

[spluff]

it is a SATA2 drive and does have the add/remove device icon in the
toolbar.

 

[Ron Sommer]

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/interface_cards/VantecSATA/
Because a sata drive is a removable device (you can hot-swap), it gets the
autoplay tab.

 

[spluff]

Thanks Ron you have been of great help.........

I presume that having the autoplay tab is normal.

It does seem to be VERY strange that a hard drive would have an
autoplay tab - does it affect performance? and is it possible to
remove it?

 

[Ron Sommer]

It cannot be removed.

Click on the AutoPlay tab.
Click Select an action to perform.
Take no action.

Do this for each partition.

For AutoPlay to function, a computer has to check if a device is ready to
use.
These actions trigger a device being ready to use:
Insert a CD
Connect to a USB port
Connect a sata drive
...........

Your computer is checking every ? seconds.
If something is found and an action is called for (ex. play a music CD),
then the computer will perform the action.

By selecting Take no action, the polling and perform an action will not
occur so there will be no performance affect.