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09-23-2009
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| Vista 32bit sp1 | hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware" My disc drives are now showing up in the safely remove hardware icon of the task bar. How do i keep them from being there? they are permanent drives, not external. why did they all of a sudden show up there. thanks |
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09-23-2009
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| | Re: hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware" Some motherboard/drive controller drivers mark the drives as hot-swappable, so if you have recently updated or upgraded motherboard/drive controller drivers roll back to the last version of the driver in question. "moondogg" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:5d67d2e465f69e064c322b2591e9990a@newsgroup-gateway.com... Quote: > > My disc drives are now showing up in the safely remove hardware icon of > the task bar. How do i keep them from being there? they are permanent > drives, not external. why did they all of a sudden show up there. > > thanks > > > -- > moondogg |
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09-23-2009
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| | Re: hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware" "moondogg" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:5d67d2e465f69e064c322b2591e9990a@newsgroup-gateway.com... Quote: > > My disc drives are now showing up in the safely remove hardware icon of > the task bar. How do i keep them from being there? they are permanent > drives, not external. why did they all of a sudden show up there. > > thanks > > > -- > moondogg If you have the drives set up as ACHI in the bios they will show up as removable drives. If the drives are set up in the bios as standard SATA drives they do not. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience |
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09-24-2009
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| Vista 32bit sp1 | Re: hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware"  Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Urban  "moondogg" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:5d67d2e465f69e064c322b2591e9990a@newsgroup-gateway.com... Quote: > > My disc drives are now showing up in the safely remove hardware icon of > the task bar. How do i keep them from being there? they are permanent > drives, not external. why did they all of a sudden show up there. > > thanks OK, i found my original solution if anyone has the same issue on this forum http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic...ller?replies=9 next to last post. No more icon for my hard drive or 2 dvd-rom drives. Richard - Thanks for your input. > > > -- > moondogg If you have the drives set up as ACHI in the bios they will show up as removable drives. If the drives are set up in the bios as standard SATA drives they do not. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience I did this once before and was able to get rid of it, just couldn't remember how. I tried to roll back, but the option is grayed out. I will check the bios settings, hopefully that will do it. Thanks, i will let you know. Last edited by moondogg; 09-24-2009 at 08:42 PM.. Reason: found solution |
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09-24-2009
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| Vista 32bit sp1 | Re: hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware" Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Urban "moondogg" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:5d67d2e465f69e064c322b2591e9990a@newsgroup-gateway.com... Quote: > > My disc drives are now showing up in the safely remove hardware icon of > the task bar. How do i keep them from being there? they are permanent > drives, not external. why did they all of a sudden show up there. > > thanks > > > -- > moondogg If you have the drives set up as ACHI in the bios they will show up as removable drives. If the drives are set up in the bios as standard SATA drives they do not. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience I tried changing the drives in the bios, they were already listed as SATA drives, everyone. I am now at a loss. |
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09-25-2009
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| Vista 32bit sp1 | Re: hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware" Fixed, found my original post about this on another forum. |
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