On windows xp, my hard drive partitions show up under the safely remove icon. How do I get rid of it?

Question

Here's what it says:
Safely remove hardware:
Safely remove SAMSUNG HM120JI - Drives C: and D:

When I click on safely remove, an error message pops up saying it can't be stopped right now. I find this safely remove thing very annoying because it makes me think I left a flash drive or something on the back of the computer when I actually haven't. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks.

Answer 1

This can happen with SATA II drives which you can actually remove on the fly – if you ever wanted to unplug one!



Here are a couple of solutions:



If you have a Nforce4 Based Motherboard and your sata drives are showing up in Safely Remove Hardware, this registry hack will allow you to fix it.



1. Click Start -> Run

2. Execute regedit

3. Navigate to



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata



4. Click Edit

5. Select New > DWORD value

6. Name this DWORD: DisableRemovable

7. Double click this new DWORD and set its value to one (1).

8. Close Regedit and reboot.



If that doesn't work, you can 'hide' any drive with a little program called USB DLM. It allows you to hide ANY type of drive, external or internal from the 'Safely Remove Hardware' dialog; it also allows you to assign letters to USB drives, and a lot of other useful stuff and is FREE.



You can find the software at:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html



Download it and read help file at:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_help_e.html



Search for "safely" and you will find the directions on how to hide the drives.



Hope that helps.

Answer 2

i do no longer understand a thank you to place in 2 working systems on one complicated disk , without partitioning the complicated disk. whether , once you do partition a complicated disk and setting up a distinctive working device on each and every partition , you will get the alternative of choosing which of the two working systems you want to apply in booting up. visit regulate PANEL -> device -> progressed -> STARTUP AND restoration SETTINGS. examine the checkbox labelled TIME TO show checklist OF working systems. determine that the time putting for which those ideas would be displayed is a sensible variety like 10 or 15 seconds. click on ok once you're achieved. Reboot your pc and see in case you get a itemizing of the two working systems on the show screen once you boot up. you ought to use the arrow keys to pick the working device you want to boot up with , and press the enter key to proceed booting.

Answer 3

Hi i had a same problem with Asrock P43DE3 and fix it on Bios under Advanced meni and under SATA Configurations and find Hot Swap and select Disable.

Answer 4

That's because your hard drive is SATA and SATA drives are hot swappable.Of course you cannot remove your local hard drive and this is why you get the error message.You just have to get used to the icon