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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
Hello everyone,
Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? Mervyn. |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
In message Mervyn
wrote: Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? I'm not sure about "normal", but I've seen it under both XP and Vista, depending on the type of drive controller. -- You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
Hi if your drive is a sata drive and uses the proper controler it is normal
for it to show up like this Hope this helps Ken "DevilsPGD" wrote: In message Mervyn wrote: Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? I'm not sure about "normal", but I've seen it under both XP and Vista, depending on the type of drive controller. -- You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
In message KenM
wrote: Hi if your drive is a sata drive and uses the proper controler it is normal for it to show up like this That isn't entirely true -- It looks like it depends on whether the SATA controller thinks it's a SATA or eSATA (Although that's just a guess) My two current machines (One desktop, one laptop, pure SATA) don't show any removeable SATA drives unless I plug in an external eSATA. -- You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word. |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
The same thing just started happening to my machine; I'm using Vista
Ultimate. I've been wrestling with an Acomdata Drive Enclosure for a few weeks now, trying to use my old hard drive as a mass storage device and recover a few personal files--the enclosure would work with Vista for awhile, then suddenly stop working. The last time I tried to get the enclosure to work, I tried assigning it a new drive letter: K. That didn't change the situation, and now my C and D drives are suddenly appearing as removable storage devices. I'm worried I'm going to accidently click on them when I try to unmount my flash drive. (Oh, and the hard drive in the enclosure still shows at start up, via the safe removal icon, as a kind of phantom USB mass storage device, even though the device isn't plugged in.) Everything else seems to be working fine. Should I worry about this? Take care, Andrew (I'm using my partner's Windows account) "Mervyn" wrote: Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? Mervyn. |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
Andrew wrote:
The same thing just started happening to my machine; I'm using Vista Ultimate. I've been wrestling with an Acomdata Drive Enclosure for a few weeks now, trying to use my old hard drive as a mass storage device and recover a few personal files--the enclosure would work with Vista for awhile, then suddenly stop working. The last time I tried to get the enclosure to work, I tried assigning it a new drive letter: K. That didn't change the situation, and now my C and D drives are suddenly appearing as removable storage devices. I'm worried I'm going to accidently click on them when I try to unmount my flash drive. (Oh, and the hard drive in the enclosure still shows at start up, via the safe removal icon, as a kind of phantom USB mass storage device, even though the device isn't plugged in.) Everything else seems to be working fine. Should I worry about this? Take care, Andrew (I'm using my partner's Windows account) "Mervyn" wrote: Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? Mervyn. I've got exactly the same problem as both posters. Anyone know if this could have been caused by an update and if so which one? Nick ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
Well, from what I've learned:
1. Do not use "safely remove" with flash drives. Simply give them a moment after using them, and then unplug them. 2. Windows shows SATA drives in the "safely remove" because it is translating them. Since you are going to shut down before removing them in any event, there is no practical use for their appearance in "safely remove" from a our standpoint. 3 Just ignore both conditions. I don't know about the drive in the enclosure, but unless you changed it's attributes to allow delayed writing, not the default, you can remove it the same as above. Safely Remove would be used if it were using delayed write, which mine do since I am on an uninterruptable power supply to avoid possible data loss from delayed write. If any running software is using any of these devices, you can't "safely remove" them anyway. I hope this helps. "Nick Budd" wrote in message ... Andrew wrote: The same thing just started happening to my machine; I'm using Vista Ultimate. I've been wrestling with an Acomdata Drive Enclosure for a few weeks now, trying to use my old hard drive as a mass storage device and recover a few personal files--the enclosure would work with Vista for awhile, then suddenly stop working. The last time I tried to get the enclosure to work, I tried assigning it a new drive letter: K. That didn't change the situation, and now my C and D drives are suddenly appearing as removable storage devices. I'm worried I'm going to accidently click on them when I try to unmount my flash drive. (Oh, and the hard drive in the enclosure still shows at start up, via the safe removal icon, as a kind of phantom USB mass storage device, even though the device isn't plugged in.) Everything else seems to be working fine. Should I worry about this? Take care, Andrew (I'm using my partner's Windows account) "Mervyn" wrote: Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? Mervyn. I've got exactly the same problem as both posters. Anyone know if this could have been caused by an update and if so which one? Nick ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
Hi again,
I found a quick fix for our shared problem in another Hardware & Devices thread. I had (foolishly) downloaded an optional NVIDIA-related update, because a different hardware discussion led me to believe it might help fix the problems I was having with the hard drive enclosure; it didn't--why would it? Anyway, the NVIDIA update was causing the C drive to show up through the Safe Removal icon. To get rid of it, the other thread recommended rolling back the NVIDIA SATA driver to a previous version and rebooting. Now if only I could figure out why my HD enclosure is still showing up in the same place, even though it's been disabled, uninstalled and completely disconnected . . . Hope that helps, Andrew "Mervyn" wrote: Hello everyone, Something strange seems to be happening after I updated Windows yesterday. I have the home basic version. My hard disk is being displayed as a removal drive. There is the icon "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray now. Is this normal? Mervyn. |
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Hard disk displayed as removal drive after updating vista
Andrew;3295676 Wrote: Now if only I could figure out why my HD enclosure is still showing up in the same place, even though it's been disabled, uninstalled and completely disconnected . . . Make sure that it is all about your HDD enclosure. It could be your card reader. Select "Show individual devices" (or so), and see if driveletters are attached. -- erikdenhouter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erikdenhouter's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=39635 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=804075 http://forums.techarena.in |