Safely Remove Hardware Quirk - IBM Disk

[Sheridan Hutchinson]

Hi,

I recently purchased an IBM 7K250 SATA hard disk drive. Using 3rd party
software I cloned my older 80GB ATA HDD to the new 7K250 and also resized
the partition so that my NTFS partition took up all the available space on
the new disk. I booted from the drive and all seemed to go swimmingly well.

However, there is one quirk. The 'safely remove hardware' system tray icon
is always present, and inside it, it has my new hard disk. As it's a fixed
internal SATA disk, this has somewhat surprised me. I only have one HDD in
my system and I would duely like to tell Windows XP that it's a non-removal
hard disk, and therefore not to list it as so in the 'safely remove
hardware' icon.

I'm using the NVIDIA nForce v5.10 driver for my chipset. Anyone have any
clues as to how I can resolve this?

 

[AndyP]

"> I recently purchased an IBM 7K250 SATA hard disk drive. Using 3rd party

software I cloned my older 80GB ATA HDD to the new 7K250 and also resized
the partition so that my NTFS partition took up all the available space on
the new disk. I booted from the drive and all seemed to go swimmingly
well.

However, there is one quirk. The 'safely remove hardware' system tray
icon is always present, and inside it, it has my new hard disk. As it's a
fixed internal SATA disk, this has somewhat surprised me. I only have one
HDD in my system and I would duely like to tell Windows XP that it's a
non-removal hard disk, and therefore not to list it as so in the 'safely
remove hardware' icon.

I'm using the NVIDIA nForce v5.10 driver for my chipset. Anyone have any
clues as to how I can resolve this?

Does your motherboard have 4 SATA connectors? If so it looks like
motherboard allows hot-swapping of SATA hardrives. I think this is only
permitted for drives connected to SATA connectors 1 & 2 on the motherboard.
It should disappear if you plug the drive into one of the other SATA
connectors (3 or 4). My SATA RAID configuration did this and I too was
surprised by it; I have learnt to live with it though but need to be careful
when stopping any USB devices that might be connected.

Andy

 

[Sheridan Hutchinson]

"> I recently purchased an IBM 7K250 SATA hard disk drive. Using 3rd
party

Does your motherboard have 4 SATA connectors? If so it looks like
motherboard allows hot-swapping of SATA hardrives. I think this is only
permitted for drives connected to SATA connectors 1 & 2 on the
motherboard. It should disappear if you plug the drive into one of the
other SATA connectors (3 or 4). My SATA RAID configuration did this and I
too was surprised by it; I have learnt to live with it though but need to
be careful when stopping any USB devices that might be connected.

Andy

Hi Andy,

My motherboard has 2 SATA connectors. It does apparently allow RAID on both
SATA connectors and on the IDE connectors. I have tried disabling all the
RAID functionality on the board and booting back into XP without any joy as
it still claims the disk can be 'ejected'.

I'll have to keep trying as I'd rather not learn to live with it as I'm
somewhat of a minimalist!