How Can I Avoid This?

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Guys,

Really don't wanna reep the consequences of clicking remove the hard drive's by mistake due to a fat finger moment or a similar experience. Is there anyway I can remove them from this list only?
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I imagine I'd receive a million and one errors if I click to remove the Sata not through choice?
Only want literal removable devices on there, how can that be achieved? :)

Thanks,

Pete.
 
Do the following for the SATA connected drives only and you should be done.

I dont have a sata rig at the moment but im sure the options are the same for the sata controler.

right click on "my computer" on desktop
select "manage"
select "device manager" in the left tree
expand the "USB controller" category on the right tree
double-click the "root USB hub" where your "always on" device is connected
in the last tab ("power management"), uncheck the "allow to shutdown" checkbox
click OK and close the "device manager"
reboot

Taken from the sticky BTW
 
That didn't work mate, but thanks for that.

It's still appearing despite unticking the option you described. Unticked the box + rebooted as prompted and still there :confused:
Where else can I change that?
I also want that USB network device [My wifi router] to stop doing it too... Doesn't seem to want to be removed from that list :(

Pete.
 
electric ant said:
Just forget about ever using that. I just yank my USB stick out whenever I want, as long as fast writes are enabled you shouldn't lose any data.
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That isn't his problem. His two Samsung hard drives are also listed. He is worried that he might accidentally "Safely remove" one of them instead of his USB disks and thus bork his PC to kingdom come.
 
Yeah, I don't wanna remove them, that's the whole point really.

Obviosuly my wifi dongle and Sata HDD must stay in at all times, and I really have no idea how they got onto that list in the first place :(

I'm going for the safety first approach, but want to know how to get hware off of that list anyway! :cool: :/

Cheers,
Pete.
 
You could check out the properties of the drives in the Device Manager. Under Policies you have a choice: Optimize for quick removal OR Optimize for performance. I reckon yours are set for performance. Setting them to quick removal should remove them from the Safely Remove Hardware but then you may suffer a performance hit.

This is the obvious method I can think of but which has its drawbacks. There may be a sneaky, underhand way of fixing this though. No idea how. Sorry. Perhaps a bit of googlin' is needed.
 
You should not worry, if the drives are in use it will not allow them to be disconnected. If they are not in use then it will allow disconnection of the drive. Obviously this will cause not harm.

TrUz
 
electric ant said:
Oh I see:o

So his SATA drives that he's booting off are showing in that list?? How strange.
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His boot drive will not be showing in that list. If it is then that is some funky stuff.

TrUz
 
i get this with my nforce raid, i just ignore the icon, and never use it, as long as you know you're not writing to your usb devices, its safe to yank them out in xp (in 2000 its a different story!)
 
TrUz said:
You should not worry, if the drives are in use it will not allow them to be disconnected. If they are not in use then it will allow disconnection of the drive. Obviously this will cause not harm.

TrUz
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This man speaks the truth!!
 
TrUz said:
His boot drive will not be showing in that list. If it is then that is some funky stuff.

TrUz
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It is my boot drive :)
Only one drive...one sata...one HDD on that list so all the same thing.

Must be a way to remove it though, despite the fact i appreciate that it wouldn't actually disconnect while running windows live on it, just want to know why its there?

Ta,

Petey.
 
It's there because SATA allows hot-swapping (although not all motherboards actually do). Most people with an nForce4 or above board will have that.
 
My RAID array shows up here, and I clicked it just for poos and giggles :p just says "this device is in use and cannot be removed" (something like that). So I shouldn't worry too much ;):p
 
If you have the nvidia IDE (like mine) and or raid enabled, you have the
drives listed under Add/Remove Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Systray.

To have it gone from now and forever use this -
* run regedit
* Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\nvata
* Create a dword value named "DisableRemovable" without the quotes and set the value to 1

If you dont have the nvata key (e.g nforce 3 drivers or older) do the same in :
Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\nvatabus
Create a dword value named "DisableRemovable" without the quotes and set the value to 1
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try it.
 
I'll try that later, thanks James buddy :)


What could I do for the Wireless adaptor, I don't want that there either cause now and again I'm booted off the net due to clicking it by mistake. Yeah, you could say don't get fat finger moments, but it shouldn't be nor do I want it on that list anyway :p

It probably relates and contributes to this thread also?

Thanks,
Pete.
 
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