Hi, is it normal to see your internal hard drive in the "Safely remove hardware" tab in the taskbar? I know it only comes out when you connect a device in the USB port. Everytime I start Windows XP its always there. Is it safe if I remove my hard drive from there?What happens if you click it? Do you have more than one hard drive?This is definitely not normal....what happened prior to this ? ?

If you select remove you may risk losing your data.

Do you have a real XP CD to do a repair install ? ?The pc was handed down to me by a friend. Its been like that since I got it. It only has one SATA hard drive that is partitioned into 2. I really dont want to risk removing it from the tab. Do you think I should reinstall XP?To my knowledge this is normal for a SATA HDD in XP. I currently have vista but when I had XP (on the PC in sig) this happened. It is because the motherboard supports SATA plug and GO or something like that. XP does not realise that you don't really want to remove the system drive as this feature came out after XP. I don't recommend reinstalling because it's not a problem and it probably wont change anything and I just hid that notification item.

There may be BIOS settings that address this though.Quote

To my knowledge this is normal for a SATA HDD

The computer was actually built by my friend. The motherboard he used was MSI K8N Diamond Plus. I havent checked if it supports swappable SATA drives. If you dont think that this is actually a problem then its a great relief. I really dont wanna reinstall XP. I'm just concerned that I might accidentally remove it.

Quote from: jquin3 on June 19, 2007, 01:16:00 AM

The computer was actually built by my friend. The motherboard he used was MSI K8N Diamond Plus. I havent checked if it supports swappable SATA drives. If you dont think that this is actually a problem then its a great relief. I really dont wanna reinstall XP. I'm just concerned that I might accidentally remove it.

Yes it's not a problem and to actually remove a drive you first have to open the dialog, select device, press stop and confirm. Not something you can do accidentally.

Quote from: DeltaSlaya on June 19, 2007, 03:16:00 AM

Quote from: jquin3 on June 19, 2007, 01:16:00 AM

The computer was actually built by my friend. The motherboard he used was MSI K8N Diamond Plus. I havent checked if it supports swappable SATA drives. If you dont think that this is actually a problem then its a great relief. I really dont wanna reinstall XP. I'm just concerned that I might accidentally remove it.

Yes it's not a problem and to actually remove a drive you first have to open the dialog, select device, press stop and confirm. Not something you can do accidentally.

Not necessarily true. That's if you right-click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon. If you left-click, it will let you choose the hardware through a different menu. Check out my attached image; this is very easy to do by accident.