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@Jezzer56:
Whatever 'Removable Drives' are listed in your 'Safely Eject' flyout...
will be the ones that show underneath 'This PC'
And, it won't be the C: drive, or whatever drive you have the 'System Reserved' on.
Thanks for your reply, Edwin. Unless terminology has changed whilst I was asleep, I would class my 3 HDDs as fixed disks (non removable). They are inside the chassis of my PC. However, they appear on the safely remove hardware option, although I haven't tried ejecting any of the three to date. Apparently brink has some how-to's on File Explorer, so I will review those in an attempt to sort the navigation pain (sorry pane ) out.
If they appear on the safely remove list then you might have them set as hot swap in BIOS.I would class my 3 HDDs as fixed disks (non removable). They are inside the chassis of my PC. However, they appear on the safely remove hardware option
This is an interesting problem!
I looked at your system specs but all I got was Intel 2500K and a Gigabytes Motherboard.
Looks like you have a hot swap mobile rack connected to a Internal SATA backplane or hot swap drive supported by BIOS!
Can you give us a little more info on your setup?
Hi snoopy51. I'll reply to your post, but it's also relevant to the last post from topgundcp, as it refers to the BIOS.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H67MA-D2H-B3. The processor is an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz.
The motherboard supports 'hot plug' only if the AHCI option is set, as opposed to the remaining IDE or RAID options. I have AHCI set, which is why the 3 HDDs appear under the 'safely remove hardware' popup (as per topgundcp). I don't see any independent way of setting these to non swappable, but retain any benefits of AHCI. I don't have any SSDs, so I suppose there may not be any disadvantages of resorting to IDE . I did try changing to IDE mode, but the PC then failed to boot, so I reverted back to AHCI. Registry entry changes are probably required prior to attempting to change the mode to IDE. Having the drives appear in 'safely remove hardware' is no big deal though. The primary reason for this thread was to find out why the C drive doesn't appear in the navigation pane along with the other HDDs outside of 'ThisPC'. It seems that the 'System Reserved' partition must, in some way, inhibit the display. Originally, I had my E drive on Disk0, along with the reserved partition, and the E didn't show outside of 'ThisPC'. Now that I corrected the setup so that C is on Disk0, the problem has just shifted slightly .
Mine was probably one of the last Gigabyte motherboards produced without the new fangled UEFI. Unfortunately, there is no way to set drives to non hot plug state, other than by switching to IDE mode. I doubt downloading any available motherboard update would change this. This will probably have to wait until I build my next PC, at which point I'll ensure I purchase a motherboard with the required options. May be sooner that I had planned .
You know of course, that if you set drives to non removable state, you will not have them in the folder tree - not even those, you have now.
If you want to set them as non removable, install latest intel SATA drivers (Rapid storage) for you chipset. Even if you don't intend to use RAID, this are consedered the best sata drivers.