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  May 9 2008, 12:45 PM
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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? -------------------- True Blue Never Stains
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May 9 2008, 03:53 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 20-May 07 Member No.: 131,991 |
Is your hard drive a USB harddrive? Thats the only way I can think of the computer to recognize it as removable..
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May 9 2008, 04:26 PM
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Mine does the same thing, its internal. Not IDE though. If that makes a difference.
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May 9 2008, 07:06 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 12-February 08 From: Illinois Member No.: 189,860 |
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May 9 2008, 07:53 PM
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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.. -------------------- True Blue Never Stains
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May 9 2008, 08:44 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 20-May 07 Member No.: 131,991 |
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...
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 May 10 2008, 03:19 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 12-June 07 Member No.: 136,216 |
Amending the registry, can that affect future "safely remove hardware" prompts from other products?
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