My 80gb samsung is showing in the tray as if it's an external (USB) drive. It's a green arrow icon and if you move the mouse over it a mouse tip pops up "Safely Remove Hardware". Why is it doing this? The disk is internal. I know it's small but it's anoying me.
Harddisk showing as external drive in the tray.
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Yeah mine do this, it's because it's hot swappable.
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Mine did when I first got the drive, then I had to reformat a while back and it didnt come back, twas a mystery.
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it's a feature of some SATA controllers.
I beleive the SATA spec allows for them to be hotswappable if the controller and the drive allow it, unfortunately I think windows sees the controller as allowing hot swapping but doesn't check the drive itselt.
So if your motherboads SATA controller supports hot swapping SATA drives it will show any drives connected to that controller as a removable drive.
I beleive many motherboards that have two SATA controllers (say an Intel/Nvidia one as part of the chipset and a secondary one such as highpoint/sis), may have a situation where if you connect an SATA drive on channels 1 or 2 it shows up as "removable" in windows, whilst if you connect them to channles 3 or 4 (on the secondary controller) it won't.
I think you can tell windows not to show it as removable in the drive/controller properties.
This is all based on memory though
I beleive the SATA spec allows for them to be hotswappable if the controller and the drive allow it, unfortunately I think windows sees the controller as allowing hot swapping but doesn't check the drive itselt.
So if your motherboads SATA controller supports hot swapping SATA drives it will show any drives connected to that controller as a removable drive.
I beleive many motherboards that have two SATA controllers (say an Intel/Nvidia one as part of the chipset and a secondary one such as highpoint/sis), may have a situation where if you connect an SATA drive on channels 1 or 2 it shows up as "removable" in windows, whilst if you connect them to channles 3 or 4 (on the secondary controller) it won't.
I think you can tell windows not to show it as removable in the drive/controller properties.
This is all based on memory though
If it's any help, mine do that too. I just have the Safely Remove Hardware icon always hidden, so it's not really a nuisance.
I've had 3 SATA-capable motherboards, and my current one (Abit AN8-SLI Fatal1ty) is the only one that's done it (I presume it's because it's nForce4). My nForce2 Asus A8N8X-E didn't, and neither did my VIA-based Asus A8V.
I've had 3 SATA-capable motherboards, and my current one (Abit AN8-SLI Fatal1ty) is the only one that's done it (I presume it's because it's nForce4). My nForce2 Asus A8N8X-E didn't, and neither did my VIA-based Asus A8V.
Right-click the taskbar>Properties>under Notification Area, click Customise>Find the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the list and set its behaviour to Always Hide.
Doesn't completely get rid of it (because you'd still need it if you connect an external hard-drive or something), but it does mean you just have to click the little arrow next to the system tray icons (near the clock) in order to see it.
It's quite useful being able to hide certain icons. I just permenantly hide the less useful stuff like my anti-virus etc, and permenantly display stuff like the network connection and CPU usage indicator.
Hope that helps.
Doesn't completely get rid of it (because you'd still need it if you connect an external hard-drive or something), but it does mean you just have to click the little arrow next to the system tray icons (near the clock) in order to see it.
It's quite useful being able to hide certain icons. I just permenantly hide the less useful stuff like my anti-virus etc, and permenantly display stuff like the network connection and CPU usage indicator.
Hope that helps.