Hard drive, Rom drive problem

[trs]ALUMINUM · 08-26-2007, 11:26 PM

I got a new Western Digital 250gig sata hard drive, and a DVD burner thats also sata. I re-installed windows vista and the safely remove icon is always there telling me that my hard drive and burner are removable

[trs]ALUMINUM · 08-26-2007, 11:57 PM

sorry for dbl posting. didnt realize it

brian · 08-26-2007, 11:59 PM

lol. that is bazar

PC eye · 08-27-2007, 12:06 AM

Nothing to panic about there. Even Vista sees sata type drives more as addon rather then a standard like you would see with an ide drive. By default the Vista installer still looks for the first ide drive when going to install the new version. The safely remove icon seen in the system tray is also seen in XP as well.

You can hide that easy enough by simply right clicking on the Start task bar and going to the notification tab. There you will see the small check box for hiding inactive icons and the customize button to choose between hide when inactive, always show, and always hide. Once you select the option from the dropdown menu you simply click the apply button when exiting there.

[trs]ALUMINUM · 08-27-2007, 12:09 AM

Thanks PC Eye but is there going to be a fix to that problem if anyone knows?.

PC eye · 08-27-2007, 01:37 AM

When first going to install either XP or Vista that will be seen for awhile until one day it simply disappears when you have a number of icons and decide to hide some. With both Vista and XP running on the new build here both see the same icon in the system tray. It's not a problem when you simply choose the always hide option since it is a normal item for these two versions of Windows.

08-26-2007, 11:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
[trs]ALUMINUM Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridge, MA Age: 16 Posts: 187	Hard drive, Rom drive problem I got a new Western Digital 250gig sata hard drive, and a DVD burner thats also sata. I re-installed windows vista and the safely remove icon is always there telling me that my hard drive and burner are removable __________________ DESKTOP MOBO: EVGA 790i ULTRA SLI CPU: Intel Core 2 QUAD Q6600 OC'ed 3.0ghz RAM: 2GB OCZ Reaper 1333mhz DDR3 GPU: EVGA GTX280 CASE: Antec P182 HDD: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300gb 10k COOLING: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 with retention brace

08-26-2007, 11:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
[trs]ALUMINUM Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridge, MA Age: 16 Posts: 187	sorry for dbl posting. didnt realize it __________________ DESKTOP MOBO: EVGA 790i ULTRA SLI CPU: Intel Core 2 QUAD Q6600 OC'ed 3.0ghz RAM: 2GB OCZ Reaper 1333mhz DDR3 GPU: EVGA GTX280 CASE: Antec P182 HDD: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300gb 10k COOLING: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 with retention brace

08-26-2007, 11:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
brian Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: California Age: 16 Posts: 3,680	lol. that is bazar __________________ formerly brianmay27 Main laptop: hp dv9005us \| turion 64 X2 1.6 ghz \| 3 GB ram \| Vista ultimate \| 240 GB HD First build: pentium e2160 3.2 GHz \| gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| 2.5 GB ram \| 160GB HD If you can see this, you have WAY TOO much time on your hand. Or you're a mod going through my sig. But if you do, copy and past this in your sig.

08-27-2007, 12:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,279	Nothing to panic about there. Even Vista sees sata type drives more as addon rather then a standard like you would see with an ide drive. By default the Vista installer still looks for the first ide drive when going to install the new version. The safely remove icon seen in the system tray is also seen in XP as well. You can hide that easy enough by simply right clicking on the Start task bar and going to the notification tab. There you will see the small check box for hiding inactive icons and the customize button to choose between hide when inactive, always show, and always hide. Once you select the option from the dropdown menu you simply click the apply button when exiting there. __________________ Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175 Is EBay going out of the Auction Business? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1

08-27-2007, 12:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
[trs]ALUMINUM Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridge, MA Age: 16 Posts: 187	Thanks PC Eye but is there going to be a fix to that problem if anyone knows?. __________________ DESKTOP MOBO: EVGA 790i ULTRA SLI CPU: Intel Core 2 QUAD Q6600 OC'ed 3.0ghz RAM: 2GB OCZ Reaper 1333mhz DDR3 GPU: EVGA GTX280 CASE: Antec P182 HDD: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300gb 10k COOLING: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 with retention brace

08-27-2007, 01:37 AM	#6 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,279	When first going to install either XP or Vista that will be seen for awhile until one day it simply disappears when you have a number of icons and decide to hide some. With both Vista and XP running on the new build here both see the same icon in the system tray. It's not a problem when you simply choose the always hide option since it is a normal item for these two versions of Windows. __________________ Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175 Is EBay going out of the Auction Business? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1

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