Hardware showing up as removable

[Sleekit]

Hi, i'm currently having a problem where vista is showing my internal harddrives and dvd drive as removable storage?

How do I fix this?

Thanks

 

[Rastalovich]

Can be a few reasons for this.

Could be ur drives are on 2 sata ports that are a different color to the others as they're shared with esata ports with a separate controller. (these are removable by default)

..... the drives are setup as dynamic volumes (or whatever the selection is for hot-swapping drives). Computer->Manage->Drives can show u this and have options for changing.

..... ur sata controller of choice as used by the mobo people sets all drives up as hot-swappable. In conjunction with a raid setup maybe.

Maybe a few other reasons too. Laptops have a habit of doing this with optical drives, often as they`re designed to be unattached whilst Vista is still running to change for harddrives and such.

Key thing is being able to unplug them whilst the pc is running.

 

[zak4994]

Key thing is being able to unplug them whilst the pc is running...

...unless you are running your OS on it.

 

[Rastalovich]

Nope, most are stupid enough to have them pop-up as removable too.

Never actually tried removing them, but I would hope most OS(s) are intelligent enough to deny u. As they would a format c: ^.~

Who am I kidding ?

 

[JN]

Nope, most are stupid enough to have them pop-up as removable too.

Never actually tried removing them, but I would hope most OS(s) are intelligent enough to deny u. As they would a format c: ^.~

Who am I kidding ?

Hehe. Been there, tried that

You definitely can't eject/disconnect the drive that is running Windows. Thankfully it's intelligent enough to throw an error when you attempt that. Not sure about non-OS drives tho.