SSD showing as removable.

[thedoc46]

Put a new SSD in yesterday, a dedicated drive for my new Oculus rift, however its showing up as a removable drive. Which is annoying, cos if i say remove, i literally have to take the computer apart to remove it, fire up and then replug it in.

I've tried the microsoft recommended fix. Running in admin

reg.exe add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device” /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d 0

'0' being the bus number its on.. Actually i have 6 drives installed all on bus 0

Went to AsRock's website and re-downloaded the sata3 drivers, which it said i already had, but ran a repair for s and giggles.

Can't seem to get rid of it and its driving me flippin crazy.

mobo is an Asrock Z270 Extreme 4. On the latest bios and drivers. Not had this problem with any of my other SSD's.. dang it.

 

[thedoc46]

On my Asrock board there is a hotswap option in the BIOS for each SATA port. If you have this option try disabling it for this drive

Thanks, for one reason or another, this drive is the only drive that doesn't have the options. All my other drives have the option of having hotswap disabled. I noticed that its the first drive in a sata port with a letter by the name like A_1 ... Maybe i'll take out my DVD R/W that i never ever use, and put the SSD in that SATA port. If it works great, i'll sacrifice my dvd RW to get one of those ports. i have too many drives to use up a valuable SATA port !

 

[thedoc46]

So i swapped the sata ports over with my DVD/RW and the problem has gone.. Immediately i went into the bios and right away it showed as hots swap as disabled in its new sata port. Not tried plugging in the DVD/RW yet, but will do next.. If i can't keep it as hotswap disabled i'll just leave it disconnected. Thanks Bongo for pointing me in the right direction.

 

[thedoc46]

Found this info online. Seems to explain the problem you have/had.

Ports A1 and A2 will be ASMedia or some other 3rd party controller so will not have the full range of options as the Intel controlled ones.

Thanks Freddie, you forgot to attach the link. Wouldn't mind reading it. I did re-connect the DVD-RW to one of the A_1 AsMedia satas and it didn't either have the hotswap disable option in the BIOS, so showed up as a removable drive in the OS. Already tried updating my drivers, so i guess i'll probably just leave it disconnected and call it good for now. i have 6 drives, and the only last two remaining sata ports are the A_1 and A_2, so one day i may want to use them. So wouldn't mind finding the fix so they don't show up as removable for when the time comes.