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Old 07-31-2012, 02:18 AM   #1
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System disk as USB device
Hello,

I have a strange problem with USB devices. My Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit reports my internal SSD and hard drives (SATA) as USB devices see attached image.
It seems to be quite dangerous as you can accidentally remove the system disk.

Is there any way to remove internal SATA disks from the USB devices list?

Thanks in advance!
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Old 07-31-2012, 07:20 AM   #2
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That doesn't mean they're reporting as USB drives. Just that they can be safely removed. SATA drives are hot-swappable. This is perfectly normal. I don't believe it will actually let you un-mount the system disk.
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Old 07-31-2012, 09:25 AM   #3
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I don't believe it will actually let you un-mount the system disk.
It wont... i use a sata hard drive as a system disk and one day i had a usb flashdrive connected and when i went to unmount it from the system, i accidently clicked on my hard drive and windows promply said it couldnt be removed.
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Old 07-31-2012, 10:36 AM   #4
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Well, it's nice to know that it is not possible to remove them.

However I have 2 similar PCs at home and the second one doesn't report SATA drives on this list. What makes the difference?
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Old 07-31-2012, 11:01 AM   #5
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Well, it's nice to know that it is not possible to remove them.

However I have 2 similar PCs at home and the second one doesn't report SATA drives on this list. What makes the difference?
If you are using sata drives and they dont show in windows, you are using IDE MODE instead of AHCI mode... option changable in motherboard BIOS.

You can change from AHCI mode to IDE mode but not the other way around... if you do, you will be prompted with a BSOD while system tries to load windows.
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If you are using sata drives and they dont show in windows, you are using IDE MODE instead of AHCI mode... option changable in motherboard BIOS.

You can change from AHCI mode to IDE mode but not the other way around... if you do, you will be prompted with a BSOD while system tries to load windows.
Yep. Although not completely true, you can change the settings around to make it happen. It's just annoying.

http://www.neowin.net/news/neowin-gu...alling-windows
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Old 07-31-2012, 04:14 PM   #7
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I'm in AHCI and my internal drives don't show up as removable, maybe it's the chipset, never had that problem.
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