'Safely remove hardware' icon, how to remove?

[Dutch Guy]

How do I remove the 'Safely remove hardware' icon from the taskbar?

It is there ever since I upgraded my harddisks to two ATA ones and I don't want to accidentally stop them.

 

[Dutch Guy]

How are you going to stop your HDD's if they are ATA? They will not even show in there!

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Both harddisks are there when I click the icon.

I just thought about it and it is the same icon as *** USB stick uses so I guess I can leave it if it isn't possible to stop the hardrives when Windows is in use.

 

[Dutch Guy]

They are internal SATA Hitachi drives.

I know how to hide the icon but I'd rather not use that function as I'd like to see what is running in the background.

If it isn't possible it's not a big problem, just one more icon that is on the screen.