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I have a new SATA hd as my main boot drive. It shows up as a removable drive
in the system tray.

Not sure what to think of this, but I'd like to fix this.

The drive is a Western Digital 160 gig Caviar SE.
MB is an XFX 680i LT.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

"JoeBlo" <> wrote:

>I have a new SATA hd as my main boot drive. It shows up as a removable drive
>in the system tray.
>
>Not sure what to think of this, but I'd like to fix this.
>
>The drive is a Western Digital 160 gig Caviar SE.
>MB is an XFX 680i LT.
>
>Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Odd for sure, try this
In Explorer, right click on C:\ drive, Properties, Hardware Tab,
Double click on your Drive, Policies.

See if it's set for quick removal, and if you can change it from
there.
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On 09 Jun 2007 JoeBlo wrote in 24hoursupport.helpdesk

> I have a new SATA hd as my main boot drive. It shows up as a removable
> drive in the system tray.
>
> Not sure what to think of this, but I'd like to fix this.
>
> The drive is a Western Digital 160 gig Caviar SE.
> MB is an XFX 680i LT.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>
>

Western Digital drives die so fast they are now considered removable just
like a floppy is.


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JoeBlo wrote:
> I have a new SATA hd as my main boot drive. It shows up as a
> removable drive in the system tray.
>
> Not sure what to think of this, but I'd like to fix this.
>
> The drive is a Western Digital 160 gig Caviar SE.
> MB is an XFX 680i LT.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

I believe that's what happens when you use the NVIDIA drivers for the drive
controller.
Probably because it's part of the SATA spec that they are supposed to be
hot-swappable.
If it bothers you try changing to the Microsoft driver.
I don't think there will be a performance hit but it's easy enough to run
some benchmarks before and after to be sure.

Its a design feature of your chipset, as sata is designed to be hot
swapable.
Since you cannot eject the o/s drive it doesnt really matter & there is
nothing to fix

"JoeBlo" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I have a new SATA hd as my main boot drive. It shows up as a removable
drive
> in the system tray.
>
> Not sure what to think of this, but I'd like to fix this.
>
> The drive is a Western Digital 160 gig Caviar SE.
> MB is an XFX 680i LT.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>
>

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:43:16 +0000, Yorkshire Pete wrote:

> On 09 Jun 2007 JoeBlo wrote in 24hoursupport.helpdesk
>
>> I have a new SATA hd as my main boot drive. It shows up as a removable
>> drive in the system tray.
>>
>> Not sure what to think of this, but I'd like to fix this.
>>
>> The drive is a Western Digital 160 gig Caviar SE.
>> MB is an XFX 680i LT.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>>
>>
>
> Western Digital drives die so fast they are now considered removable just
> like a floppy is.

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