Hi,

I recently had to reinstall Windows XP on my C drive. The harddrive has 5 partitions and I only had to reinstall C Drive. But since then whenever I start windows, the Harddrive is appearing on the safely remove harddrive icon all the time. How do I stop this. Incidently I had the problem that on startup everytime the system would die on me and I had to reboot and it works fine the second time...always!! that problem still exists. Are the two problems related?

Is your hard drive a USB harddrive? Thats the only way I can think of the computer to recognize it as removable..

Mine does the same thing, its internal. Not IDE though. If that makes a difference.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic143317.html

bingo smurfgod!!

Mine is an internal seagate barracuda HD...
the comp has a nvidia video card..that might be the issue it seems..
I am gonna do what the other forum originator did and leave this one alone...
dont wanna mess with the registry and all..

as long as you don't screw with anything else but what the other topic said to mess with, you'd be perfectly fine, I bet. If I remember correctly, most registry things in the ms program don't allow to be changed unless you purposely click on them and change them...

Amending the registry, can that affect future "safely remove hardware" prompts from other products?