Vista - Safely Remove Hardware

After (successfully) updating NVIDIA network controllers and graphics I
notice that for the first time Windows loads a "Safely Remove Hardware"
notification icon for my internal (boot) hard disk. I want to get rid of
this as it might inadvertently get selected when I am removing something
else. Can I do that selectively for the hard disk item only and if so how?

I created that problem for myself once, but I believe it was with XP and/or
XP x64.
You might try searching Planetamd64.com. I believe that issue was addressed
there.
It's been more than a year since that happened to me, so my memory is fuzzy.
It definitely has something to do with how you load the NVIDIA controllers
and whether there's some you shouldn't load if you want to address this
problem. (There are tons of folks who will tell you this is not a problem,
but I think it is.)



"Greg (remove the doubled characters)" <oorrtthhooddooxx@clara.net> wrote in
message news:83D200BB-7E58-4ABB-B2F2-2AB4644EECBE@microsoft.com...
> After (successfully) updating NVIDIA network controllers and graphics I
> notice that for the first time Windows loads a "Safely Remove Hardware"
> notification icon for my internal (boot) hard disk. I want to get rid of
> this as it might inadvertently get selected when I am removing something
> else. Can I do that selectively for the hard disk item only and if so
> how?

Thanks DP. After Googling I notice that there are loads of folks
complaining about this but it is a feature of the hard disk controller ...
not a real problem. Clearly the latest Nvidia update merely sought to "make
that real" for the hard drive as well, (which it supports). I have also
noticed that many have written to the effect that should a person try and
unload the drive it wouldn't work anyway although I am not about to try
that! Some have even gone so far as to roll back the drivers ... which
seems rather unneccesary to me if the only problem is a redundant icon. I
tend to update NVIDIA drivers as these have never given me problems before
and presumably there are good reasons for updating them. I must admit
though that my heart is always in my mouth a bit ... especially with
hardware updates.

Greg

"Greg (remove the doubled characters)" <oorrtthhooddooxx@clara.net> wrote in
message news:83D200BB-7E58-4ABB-B2F2-2AB4644EECBE@microsoft.com...
> After (successfully) updating NVIDIA network controllers and graphics I
> notice that for the first time Windows loads a "Safely Remove Hardware"
> notification icon for my internal (boot) hard disk. I want to get rid of
> this as it might inadvertently get selected when I am removing something
> else. Can I do that selectively for the hard disk item only and if so
> how?