Quote: Originally Posted by
dave xnet 
Hello, I recently installed Vista Ultimate, so I'm pretty new to it. My boot drive is SATA(non raid) with an IDE secondary disk.
Vista lives in a logical drive on the SATA disk; in addition there is a primary partition and two other logical data partitions.
I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour. There was the "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.
I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?
Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update and it offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and is working fine. COuld this be related?
Thanks,
Dave
Yes, they are related.
SATA is supposed to be hot-swap capable. It reasonable to believe that the new drivers have been updated to reflect this capability.
My three SATA drives are spanned in a JBOD configuration, thus giving me only one drive in Explorer. The Safely Remove Hardware icon, oddly enough, gives me three "Safely remove NVIDIA nforce RAID device" entries.
You can ignore this, but just be careful that you don't accidentally click the wrong option when using "Safely Remove Hardware" to remove a USB Drive or some other device.