Windows says its safe to remove my new drive? :S

Nieldo · 21 Mar 2006 at 14:45

Just installed my new Western Digital 36.7GB 10kRPM drive, but Im getting that little "Safely remove hardware" icon in my bar, you know the one that pops up when you connect a USB storage devise, click it says my new drive in the list.

Anyone shed any light on a solution for this?

Thanks.

EternalMovement · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:01

Its working as intended as far as I know so nothing to worry about, it does the same on my seagate 80gig sata2 hd.

semi-pro waster · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:10

There isn't a solution as such because it is working as intended, some motherboard manufacturers have enabled this feature so you can hot-swap the drive(although not if it is a boot drive).

There isn't anything to worry about so you can ignore it or hide it if you set it so only the most recently used icons appear in the taskbar beside the clock.

Nieldo · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:18

oh. fair enough.

I have currently got windows running off it, so its booting from it. Should the icon still be there?

semi-pro waster · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:30

Nieldo said:
oh. fair enough.

I have currently got windows running off it, so its booting from it. Should the icon still be there?

Yes it should still be there because of the implementation but it should make it impossible to remove the drive as it shouldn't be possible to power it down I believe.

Nieldo · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:48

Alright, thanks for the help.

Thread can die now