Internal drive appearing in safely remove hardware

mattyj1085 · 16 Apr 2009 at 09:00

My SATA Samsung HD501LJ is appearing in the safely remove hardware taskbar for some reason.

Also on deive manager under policies write cacheing and safe removal is greyed out on all drives except for the samsung

Is this normal for SATA (the rest of my drives are IDE) or does windows think it is an internal drive?

Ringiho · 16 Apr 2009 at 15:10

I think Vista does that with SATA drives, but I can't remember why!

Hotswap controller on the MBD?

MikeHunt79 · 16 Apr 2009 at 15:26

It's fine, it does this on my rig also, AHCI drivers I think. )

rpstewart · 16 Apr 2009 at 15:26

It's entirely normal although it seems to happen on nvidia boards more than Intel based ones. You won't be able to remove it if it's the boot drive anyway as there will always be open files preventing the removal.

mattyj1085 · 16 Apr 2009 at 15:50

Im running XP. How do you remove it from safely remove hardware? I have just cloned my C: onto the new drive where it shows up in safely remove hardware (and did before when it had nothing on)

edit - and what happens if i press 'stop' on the hard drive whilst its running as my Windows drive?

baldzone · 16 Apr 2009 at 16:38

mattyj1085 said:
edit - and what happens if i press 'stop' on the hard drive whilst its running as my Windows drive?

You'll get a message along the lines of 'unable to stop this volume'