[SOLVED] SATA drive shows as removable

Loloxx · 06-03-2007, 08:32 AM

Hello again

,

My hard drive works perfectly, but I have a little concern. As the topic of this thread reads, my SATA drive (WD 200gb), shows as removable on the windows "safely remove hardware" bar.

I would like to know if this behavior is normal of a SATA drive, my motherboard is an ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe with chipset Nforce 570, dunno if that helps to find out why sata shows as removable.

Thanks

**1 g0t 0wn3d** · 06-03-2007, 10:45 AM

Is this the hdd that windows is on?

**simpswr** · 06-03-2007, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loloxx

my SATA drive (WD 200gb), shows as removable on the windows "safely remove hardware" bar.

I would like to know if this behavior is normal of a SATA drive, my motherboard is an ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe with chipset Nforce 570, dunno if that helps to find out why sata shows as removable.

Thanks

That is normal for the nVidia SATA controller . . Hopefully, they will fix it with the next version

dai · 06-03-2007, 11:13 AM

there is a fair bit of discussion on it here
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t25792.html

Loloxx · 06-03-2007, 11:59 AM

yes, XP is installed on this drive.

Oh, so its normal for nvidia sata controller :P.

ok, thanks guys ^^

06-03-2007, 08:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
Loloxx Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 92 OS: Vista	[SOLVED] SATA drive shows as removable Hello again, My hard drive works perfectly, but I have a little concern. As the topic of this thread reads, my SATA drive (WD 200gb), shows as removable on the windows "safely remove hardware" bar. I would like to know if this behavior is normal of a SATA drive, my motherboard is an ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe with chipset Nforce 570, dunno if that helps to find out why sata shows as removable. Thanks

06-03-2007, 10:45 AM	#2 (permalink)
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06-03-2007, 11:13 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,487 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: SATA drive shows as removable there is a fair bit of discussion on it here http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t25792.html __________________

06-03-2007, 11:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
Loloxx Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 92 OS: Vista	Re: SATA drive shows as removable yes, XP is installed on this drive. Oh, so its normal for nvidia sata controller :P. ok, thanks guys ^^