Safely remove internal hardrive?!

[hxc87x]

i noticed this for the first time today.
where you normally click to remove USB and other devices, it lists my 2 hardrives, which are sata and internal.

"safely remove WDC WD3200AAJS-00VWA0 - Drive C" and "safely remove WDC WD1600AAJS-22PSA0 - Drive D"

it never used to do this and i dont know how long its been doing it. i formatted it just now and its still doing that.

is this normal? is it supposed to do this? and is there a way i can make it stop listing them there?

 

[The_Techie]

Interesting question. I have seen that with my previous motherboard, but my new motherboard doesn't list the SATA drives as removable storage. So I guess it's normal, although I do not know how to get rid of them.

 

[feo]

Go to My Computer, right click the HDD in question, go to Properties, click the Hardware tab, highlight the drive from the list, click Properties, select the Policies tab and select Optimize for Quick Removal.

 

[The_Techie]

Go to My Computer, right click the HDD in question, go to Properties, click the Hardware tab, highlight the drive from the list, click Properties, select the Policies tab and select Optimize for Quick Removal.

I've seen that the option to do that has been greyed out with my current setup. I always wondered about that

 

[hj2k_x]

Mine also show up ...

 

[realbigdreamer]

I think it only shows on certain mobos. Mine is also greyed out btw.

 

[Crusader]

It does the same on my machine. I think SATA drives are supposed to be hot-swappable... in theory at least.

 

[d0b33]

try to eject it.. if it refuses there is nothing to be worried about.

 

[zamicro]

I think that your OS drive do not show up, but a non-os sata drive will show up

 

[HavocXphere]

I've seen it on laptops. I guess it depends on how the mobo manufacturer handled the bridge between the chipset and IO.

 

[hxc87x]

Go to My Computer, right click the HDD in question, go to Properties, click the Hardware tab, highlight the drive from the list, click Properties, select the Policies tab and select Optimize for Quick Removal.

it's still there after doing that...

I think that your OS drive do not show up, but a non-os sata drive will show up

my C drive is the one with windows on it and that still shows up...

I've seen it on laptops. I guess it depends on how the mobo manufacturer handled the bridge between the chipset and IO.

ok, but mine never used to show up in the safely remove hardware thing but now it does, so i dont know if its the mobo. would having downloaded new bios for my mobo have changed that?

 

[HavocXphere]

would having downloaded new bios for my mobo have changed that?

Maybe they worked out a way to squeeze some extra performance by handling the IO devices separately. e.g. Apparently some PCs report SATA drives as scsi.

 

[howardb]

Mine have always shown in the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon, including the boot drive - I thought it was normal because it was a SATA hot-swappable-capable drive. Currently showing the C, E, O and Z drives - only Z is a USB boost drive, the rest are SATA - C and O are 2 volumes on the same Drive. My other SATA drives that are plugged into a PCI SATA card are not shoing up in the box - maybe it only shows the onboard connectors?

 

[The_Techie]

It's possible, although there seems to be an inconsistency between the different systems.

I just noticed that it doesn't show as removable on one of the other systems I use.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

IIRC, one of the SATA specs is that you can plug it in and out of a live system. (hot swappable).