My HDD is being weird

[Kaine]

mornings. long story short, got a new motherboard and i5 chip, and everything installed as it should, but now my internal HDD is showing as a external drive ala I can safely remove it. configuration is set to AHCI in the bios. its not a train smash, but Im ultra nervous I by accident safely remove the drive. Intel RST wont install either. fairly sure I havent googled the right terms as to how to fix it, and I dont want to mess with the registry unless its absolutely the last resort. Neither is reinstalling windows as its an oem build.

halp asseblief enige iemand?

 

[SYNERGY]

It's a setting in your BIOS that you need to change.

Post your motherboard brand and model.

 

[WAslayer]

there will be an option in your bios to enable or disable hotswap for sata drives.. disabling hotswap should remove the option to safely remove the drives in windows.. also, you cant do any harm with the safe to remove option.. its there to allow you to safely remove drives.. windows will tell you the drive is busy and cant be removed, or it will stop any further actions on the drive safely, and tell you its safe to remove the drive..

 

[Kaine]

its a Biostar H61MLV3 motherboard. been scratching through the bioss, and havent found anything relating to hotswap or hot-pluggable. so where am I not looking that I should look?

 

[Pitbull]

its a Biostar H61MLV3 motherboard. been scratching through the bioss, and havent found anything relating to hotswap or hot-pluggable. so where am I not looking that I should look?

Selecting it as a primary boot drive should automatically deactivate hotswap not so?

 

[Kaine]

Selecting it as a primary boot drive should automatically deactivate hotswap not so?

I dont know, which is why Im asking. I only have one HDD in there, partitioned. there are 4 sata ports (?) and the drives are on 2 and 4. is that what you are talking about? sorry for the lack of terminology, Im self-taught, and know enough, but not enough

 

[Neoprod]

If you're using the drivers that came with Windows (the OS installs them automatically), try going on Biostar's website and getting their SATA controller drivers.

Clicking the remove drive option "shouldn't" do anything as Windows would have locked files on the drive so it wouldn't be possible to detach it.

 

[Kaine]

If you're using the drivers that came with Windows (the OS installs them automatically), try going on Biostar's website and getting their SATA controller drivers.

basically transplanted the motherboard and i5 in and windows did its thing. so its possible that windows did that. why would windows of all things cause the drive to "pretend" to be an external though?

 

[Neoprod]

basically transplanted the motherboard and i5 in and windows did its thing. so its possible that windows did that. why would windows of all things cause the drive to "pretend" to be an external though?

Hotswap is a standard feature for SATA drives in AHCI mode...nice for non-system drives but Windows isn't smart enough to realise that.

 

[ponder]

Which version of windows?

 

[Kaine]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with SP1

 

[Pitbull]

I dont know, which is why Im asking. I only have one HDD in there, partitioned. there are 4 sata ports (?) and the drives are on 2 and 4. is that what you are talking about? sorry for the lack of terminology, Im self-taught, and know enough, but not enough

On the BIOS, you should have an option to select the HDD as a primary Boot drive. Well depends on your BIOS I suppose.

 

[Kaine]

If you're using the drivers that came with Windows (the OS installs them automatically), try going on Biostar's website and getting their SATA controller drivers.

this did it, thank you! weird thing though, when doing the install, it "did nothing" and only discovered it worked after I turned the pc on the next day. that and the latest drivers are from 2012...