RickH

How is the disk attached to the system? It sounds like it is using a usb to
sata adapter. If so this is why the safely remove icon exists. On my system I
run an SATA II drive that is connected directly to the motherboard controller
and I do not have a safely remove icon for it. I do have one for my USB
drives though and if I recall right there was one for the usb to sata adapter
I used for a short time. (I removed it after 2 days since it was causing
hardware conflicts)

"Cat" wrote:

> Recently, more and more people become to use SATAII hard disks which
> are permanently attached to their systems, and I'm one of them. For
> Windows Vista, I expected some improvements but the "Safely Remove
> Hardware" is just the same as that of Windows XP. I never need to open
> the "Safely Remove Hardware" but I sometimes accidentally double click
> on it when I actually wanted to double click another icon. Then for
> about 5 seconds the mouse cursor for the desktop shows the
> 'hourglass'.
>
> Probably somebody might answer, go to the properties of the taskbar
> and choose always hide, but that results in an unwanted expansion (<)
> button. I've even found that somebody is selling a program to hide
> this "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. If Microsoft just add a simple
> option "Hide icon", then we don't have to waste our money to buy such
> a program. Network icon, Volume icon and even the clock are all
> hidable and why isn't it?
>
> Can't Microsoft add the option to hide it or at least an option not to
> notify for permanently attached SATA II disks (that actually can never
> be safely removed) such as C?
>
>