C drive as removable drive.

M0ddingMan1a

M0ddingMan1a

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i have this weird problem and i was wondering if any one has the same problem b4 and could help me. i installed my OS on my C: drive which is a sata drive. its operational and shows up in my computer as a hd.it also shows up as a hd in my device manager. but in my task bar theres always a removable hardware icon. and it shows this

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then when i click on the properties for my C: drive in my computer, it i am unable to change its operational status

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now is this suppose to happen for sata drives? because i am trying to install a certain motorola program and it always shows me the error message:
"default drive of D: detected; RSD program files can only be installed on C: drive, RSD program installation will abort"

any one have a clue? :confused: :confused:
 
Your sig shows that you have 4 hard drives. Are any of those(which I already suspect are) ide drives? The Sata drives are assigned as primary or secondary master or slave by the connector they are plugged into. From there the onboard Sata controllers take over unless the ide controllers are set to override them.

Apparently one of the other drives is seen as the default drive by the installer. You could see if there is the option for a custom install to the D drive. First you would have to know if that is an ide master or slave. Otherwise you will have to use the Disk Management tool to reassign the drive letters.
 
i had that "problem" too when i was running WinXP... now i'm running XP x64 and they don't show up like that anymore in the system tray.

I hadn't really bothered to find out why it did it.
 
PC eye said:
Your sig shows that you have 4 hard drives. Are any of those(which I already suspect are) ide drives? The Sata drives are assigned as primary or secondary master or slave by the connector they are plugged into. From there the onboard Sata controllers take over unless the ide controllers are set to override them.

Apparently one of the other drives is seen as the default drive by the installer. You could see if there is the option for a custom install to the D drive. First you would have to know if that is an ide master or slave. Otherwise you will have to use the Disk Management tool to reassign the drive letters.
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sorry i didnt mention this before, lol im talkin about my AMD 64 rig. the 80 is a sata and is drive D: and the 250 is a ide and is drive E:. my dvd drive is ide and is drive D:

My two SATA drives in RAID show up in the "Safely remove hardware" box as well...not really a "problem" though.
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well yea but im trying to install this program and it always prompts me with the error about the D: drive. so this might be a plausible cause. tryin to get things straighten out here.

so any possible solutions?
 
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Your dvd drive is probably being assumed as the D drive on most systems detects the second Sata as D as well. It's not seeing your OS drive as an ide C drive. You would have to OS the 250gb ide drive and load Windows there in order for the installer to see it as a valid C drive since the installer was intended to copy files to the default ide type drive.

This is most likely the problem being seen. Solution? Install Windows on the 250gb and make that the primary OS drive and use the Satas as storage drives. The ide controller of course would be to override the Sata controllers.
 
theres no other way? because i have my system specifically set up, thats y i didnt set my 250gig as my C: drive in the first place. :confused:
 
sorry i didnt mention this before, lol im talkin about my AMD 64 rig. the 80 is a sata and is drive D: and the 250 is a ide and is drive E:. my dvd drive is ide and is drive D:
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Just me or do you have too many D drives there?

Why not just assign your D drive to C?
 
WIth two hard drives and two optical drives here when one drive is booted from the other becomes the F: drive to avoid the D and E assignments to the cd writer being the D secondary master and the dvd burner as the E secondary slave. Your OS drive loaded at any given time with Windows on it will become the C even if it is a secondary as far as the software is concerned.

I would keep the dvd as the D and assign the other D there probably to F or G with the 13.5gb drive given the other. That would remain as the neutral "D" drive even you decided to multiboot different OSs.
 
Cromewell said:
Just me or do you have too many D drives there?

Why not just assign your D drive to C?
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gosh, wats wit me and typos. correction again.

sorry i didnt mention this before, lol im talkin about my AMD 64 rig. the 80 is a sata and is drive C: and the 250 is a ide and is drive E:. my dvd drive is ide and is drive D:

there ya goo......
 
sata is plug and play believe it or not... except for the system drive. either way it'll show up in the safely remove hardware or w/e... you could right click the taskbar and tell it not to show that icon though.

try pluggin an extra sata drive in during system operation, it works ive done it before. works quite like an external drive actually.. just make sure its plugged into the psu too.
 
fade2green514 said:
sata is plug and play believe it or not... except for the system drive. either way it'll show up in the safely remove hardware or w/e... you could right click the taskbar and tell it not to show that icon though.

try pluggin an extra sata drive in during system operation, it works ive done it before. works quite like an external drive actually.. just make sure its plugged into the psu too.
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and what would that do? that doesnt reli answer my problem.

im trying to get it so that the program will read my sata C: drive instead of my ide D: drive which is a dvd drive. i need to install a program, and it prompts me with an error, look at the bottom of post one. thats my real problem.
 
As I mentioned earlier the installer was designed to install onto an ide type not Sata type drive. If you are running it from the dvd drive it's going to continue to see the 250gb as the D drive and not see your sata for that reason.
 
As I mentioned earlier the installer was designed to install onto an ide type not Sata type drive. If you are running it from the dvd drive it's going to continue to see the 250gb as the D drive and not see your sata for that reason.
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uh...can you explain to me exactly how one would program an installer to directly access the IDE hard drive on a modern windows system?

Sorry if you already posted this, but your boot drive is not C right?
 
M0ddingMan1a said:
it always shows me the error message:
"default drive of D: detected; RSD program files can only be installed on C: drive, RSD program installation will abort"

any one have a clue? :confused: :confused:
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Cromewell said:
uh...can you explain to me exactly how one would program an installer to directly access the IDE hard drive on a modern windows system?

Sorry if you already posted this, but your boot drive is not C right?
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It's "detecting" the 250gb drive as the... say waa waaaa... what? "Default Drive". It's "looking" for the default "ide" not sata drive for Windows and the Program Files directory which is generally where when the primary boot drive is what? "C = ide host" on most systems while newer boards are geared for strictly a sata primary. The software was obviously written some time back when most but a few boards saw an "IDE" drive as the primary C.
 
As far as I can tell it's looking for C to be the boot drive when D is (from the sound of the description). It has nothing to do with SATA or 'IDE.' RSD Lite 2.5 is for updating/downdating and otherwise modding motorola phones
 
But D(250gb ide) isn't the boot drive there. The Sata C drive is being use as the OS drive. It's looking for the system32 folder and to create one or more of it's own there rather then the C 80gb drive where Windows is actually installed. But Windows is telling it that the 250gb is the D in some way. The installer itself could also have a bug.
 
As I mentioned earlier the installer was designed to install onto an ide type not Sata type drive. If you are running it from the dvd drive it's going to continue to see the 250gb as the D drive and not see your sata for that reason.
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who can guess what i'm trying to say?????
ABSTRACTION
 
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