I have an Intel motherboard that has six SATA cable sockets and I am using
one for a drive and another for a connection to a port on the front panel of
the computer. When the drives are listed under Computer or Manage Drives,
the four unused sockets are shown as empty "removable media" drives. I do
not want to see these as they just confuse that page. How do I hide them?

Barrie,

Do you have a 'media card reader' installed? If so that is a more probable
source of the 4 removable devices.

If you do not want a particular hardware device to be used by Vista go to
Device manager, right click on the device and select disable.
(for me I have 5 items under Disk Drives, one 'ARRAY' (my raid hard
drive(s)) and 4 TEAC USB HS-xx xx USB device. So the hard disk and 4 empty
drives show for me.

Michael


"Barrie" wrote in message
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I have an Intel motherboard that has six SATA cable sockets and I am using
one for a drive and another for a connection to a port on the front panel
of
the computer. When the drives are listed under Computer or Manage Drives,
the four unused sockets are shown as empty "removable media" drives. I do
not want to see these as they just confuse that page. How do I hide them?

Michael, thank you! You have put your finger on it and I do not know why I
did not think of that. I put a new-to-me card reader with four slots in the
system. As it is newly built and in the trouble-shooting phase, I had not
even got around to thinking about it and it was "out of mind." At least I
know it is likely to work when I eventually get there. :-) I apologize to my
SATA sockets for wrongly accusing them.

"Michael" wrote:

Barrie,

Do you have a 'media card reader' installed? If so that is a more probable
source of the 4 removable devices.

If you do not want a particular hardware device to be used by Vista go to
Device manager, right click on the device and select disable.
(for me I have 5 items under Disk Drives, one 'ARRAY' (my raid hard
drive(s)) and 4 TEAC USB HS-xx xx USB device. So the hard disk and 4 empty
drives show for me.

Michael


"Barrie" wrote in message
...
I have an Intel motherboard that has six SATA cable sockets and I am using
one for a drive and another for a connection to a port on the front panel
of
the computer. When the drives are listed under Computer or Manage Drives,
the four unused sockets are shown as empty "removable media" drives. I do
not want to see these as they just confuse that page. How do I hide them?