Internal SATA hdd shows up as removable drive

[Guest]

My SATA hdd is showing up in the safely remove hardware list, like it was a
USB drive or something. When the computer starts that little green arrow
shows up in the task bar and my SATA hdd is listed there as one of the things
that can be removed.
Why is this happening?

 

[Guest]

Try installing the software/drivers for the SATA controller.

 

[Serge Skysi]

I have the same issue, Rodney, with my Promise SATA300 controller. Drivers
are installed.

 

[Guest]

I have nForce SATA drivers installed and this still happens

 

[Anna]

My SATA hdd is showing up in the safely remove hardware list, like it was
a
USB drive or something. When the computer starts that little green arrow
shows up in the task bar and my SATA hdd is listed there as one of the
things
that can be removed.
Why is this happening?

Because a SATA HDD has the potential quality of being "hot-pluggable" (some
call it "hot-swappable"), the system will sometimes treat it as a removable
drive in terms of reflecting the Safely Remove Icon in the Notification area
(Systray) similar, for example, to a USB external HDD. I'm not aware of any
practical way to disable that icon. (There are third-party programs that
presumably have that capability but I would not recommend their use). There
is, however, in XP a "Hide inactive icons" feature that you may be
interested in - see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279771

The (practical) bottom-line in all this is that you can just ignore the SRI;
you need not access it in any way with respect to your SATA HDD(s).
Anna