Q: I have two WD raptors, a 74 gig and 36 gig. I have both working fine so it seems, everything is fine with them. However, this icon that a station with a green arrow indicates the left to (the Safely Remove Hardware icon) appears in my taskbar. Windows thinks that my drives are hot-slot removable drives, and it was annoying the crap out of me. I want the icon to go away and to remove hardware thing no option to use this disk as I never intend to remove them. Any tips?
Oh yes, one more thing . like a fool, I chose to install the Silicon Image, Inc. – Storage – Silicon Image SII 3114 Soft Raid 5 Controller Update from the Microsoft Web page automatic updates . for some reason I thought it might be my problem here is solid, but instead now the computer keeps trying to block “SI Pseudo Device SCSI Processor Device install”. I have no idea what that is, I do not think I even have one, and I want this to stop trying to install. I remove the device, but a reboot the thing pops up again, want to install. Any ideas on how to remove?
Best Answer: Well it sounds like it may not be partitioned and formatted maybe, try going to
start / comtrol panel / administrative tools / computer management and finally the disk management tree on the left pane,
click on that, does your new drive show up on the right side, if it does you probably need to "partition" and then "format" it
Just right click on it there to partition and format it
I believe you can get a "program or tool" at WD's site to "install" the drive for you, but it does the same thing
(preferably format it with NTFS unless you need to see the drive from a Win98 computer on a network)
no compatibility issue, if your motherboard only supports 1.5g, a 3g drive will just fall back to that
Assuming this is the problem what's happening is Wndows knows the drive is there but does not display it anywhere (my computer, explorer) because as far as Windows is concerned it is in a format Windows does not know how to support so it doesn't show up anywhere
Re:Then remove it? I mean what a deal!
Sorry
Re:You can right click on the taskbar and select properties>then customize>then click on it once to highlight it and then from the drop down list select always hide.
This will hide the safely remove hardware thing for all hot-plug devices though. I don't think you can disable it just for the hard drive as guy said, they are hot-swappable drives.
Re:where on Silicon Image's site are the sata drivers located? that site is designed so horribly that I just had to give up looking >:(
Re:The reason you're getting the "remove this device" is because with the proper hardware, SATA drives are hot-swappable. I don't know of a way to disable that feature (unless maybe there's a bios setting to disable it).
Re:try installing the latest sata drivers from silicon image (not microsoft).
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