 Safely Remove Hard Drive?, dont want too :( |
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 Apr 23 2008, 05:03 AM
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 Member  Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605  |
i've had the icon in my tool bar since i installed the new computer 3 months ago can i stop it telling me to remove my hard drive? 
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Apr 23 2008, 06:17 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 27-January 08 Member No.: 186,415 |
is that you are using external hardisk?
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Apr 23 2008, 06:57 AM
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 Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
looks like the system drive
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Apr 23 2008, 06:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605 |
i do have an external hard drive, but hardly use it, may be once a week to make backups or drag old stuff onto my new computer, it's powered off 99% of the time
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Apr 23 2008, 08:40 AM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 344 Joined: 28-January 06 From: Australia Member No.: 52,817 |
QUOTE(DaChew @ Apr 23 2008, 09:57 PM)  must have an nvidia chipset on the motherboard That would be my guess. Splodge, this can happen, because SATA drives are hot-swappable, they are therefore a removeable device. As the system drive obviously cannot be removed whilst Windows is running, most people just ignore it. It's frequently seen on a motherboard with an nVidia nForce chipset. If this is your situation, it can supposedly be corrected with an edit to the Windows Registry. Some people avoid altering the registry, if you do so, be aware of the risk of something going wrong, back up the registry before making any changes. These are the instructions provided: "If you have a Nforce4 Based Motherboard and your sata drives are showing up in Safely Remove Hardware, this registry hack will allow you to fix it. 1. Click Start -> Run 2. Execute regedit 3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata 4. Click Edit 5. Select New > DWORD value 6. Name this DWORD: DisableRemovable 7. Double click this new DWORD and set its value to one (1). 8. Close Regedit and reboot This works on the Nforce3 also and the registry line may be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvatabus" -------------------- Microsft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Apr 23 2008, 10:15 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605 |
ok thanks guys, i think i'll leave it alone sounds the safest thing to do
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