Sata Boot Drive in "safely remove hardware"

[Carquip]

My system drive (sata) shows up in "Safely remove hardware" on the taskbar.

How can I stop this behaviour, as it is very easy to click the wrong hardware device.

I always thought "safely remove hardware" was for USB devices only.

Regards & thanks,

Carquip

[nitroshift]

I've seen that in the past, it's probably due to the way the chipset detects the sata drive. Don't think there's anything you can do about it unless you play with the sata options in the bios and see what happens. Good luck anyway.

[Carquip]

Thanks Nitroshift. The board is a gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G with an Nforce-430 chipset, socket AM2.

I have never seen this before, on any board.

The Bios Sata setup is set for ATA only & not raid, as I have only one sata drive, being the boot drive. The other four drives are ATA only, & none in raid.

[nitroshift]

If it's a Gigabyte board then set the sata to enhanced and keep the raid option disabled. I too have a Gigabyte board (see my sig) and that's how i configured it and doesn't show as removable device. However, using a different chipset (nforce) it might be different.

Edited August 10, 2006 by nitroshift

[Carquip]

No enhanced mode in the bios for sata.

Bios is sata2.

Raid is off.

Still no joy mate. Must be a bug in the bios. Since late May there has been 3 bios upgrades for this board.

I will ask Gigabyte about this problem & post if I get any reasonable responce.

Goes to show, just how they rush these boards to market, with NO trials of their own. SH##t service.

Never again will I EVER have a "gigabyte" board. This is the second heap of Sh##t I`ve had.

NOT at ALL a happy puppy.

Just as well I only spent AUD$176 for this load of Cr##p

May try an Asus shortly & see how that goes. Can`t be any worse tha "Gigabyte"?.

[Sonic]

Regtweak if you install nvidia ide drivers.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata]
"DisableRemovable"=dword:00000001

change nvata to nvatabus if doesn't exist ...

All sata hard disk doesn't display the Safety removable message

[Carquip]

Thanks Sonic, but the nvatabus.sys is installed.

Maybe just the reg tweak will suffice.

I just wish Nvidea would write their drivers correctly.