[savi101]

My son just replaced his HD with a 250gb WD Caviar SE (SATA 300mb/s). He uses Windows XP Home. He has an error icon "safely remove hardware" and is unable to figure out what the problem is and how to correct it. Any suggestions?

 

[Deleted090308]

Hi, welcome to TSF. :wave:

That's normal with SATA2 hard drives and some motherboards/SATA controllers.
The reason for that is the option to "hot swap" SATA2 drives.