[Help] SATA Drive showing as removable drive?!

[LeeD]

Hello,

I've just bought a new motherboard and hard drive for another of my PC's (ASUS K8N-VM, WD Caviar SATAII 500GB drive). Installed everything hardware & software wise with no problems, but noticed that Windows is detecting the new hard drive as a removable dvice!!

Can anybody shed some light onto why it's doing this?

Regards

Lee

[mrnxdmx]

And if you try to remove it, it wont do that. I have seen that situation on some of computers. It does not create error, just shows there.

[cluberti]

Whatever disk controller it's attached to is telling windows that the drive is removable - I'd check for newer drivers, and also log a support call or email to the chipset or motherboard vendor to see if they've heard of this before.

Windows is just telling you what the hardware is divulging to it during hardware detection, so if it's showing as removable, then the removable (non-SCSI removable) bit is being set by the controller during the hardware probe for some reeason.

[Angel Blue01]

The Nvidia drivers do this. This is a feature! ;-)

[LLXX]

This is absolutely normal. SATA was designed to be hot-swappable originally. Whether or not you'd want to do that with your boot drive is debatable.

[cluberti]

LOL

[LeeD]

a "feature" huh, LOL

Well this is the first SATA motherboard I've had with a nVidia chipset, my other boards are all VIA so that's probably why I've never come across this before!

Will see if there are newer drivers to fix this feature

thanks