internal hard drives showing as external removable devices


  1. mikee286
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    internal hard drives showing as external removable devices


    I just finished building my new pc and my hard drives which I moved over from my old computer are showing in device manager and windows media player as portable devices. How to I get them to show up as internal

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    AMD Ryzen 1400. Asrock AB350 Pro4 motherboard, 16gb ram 240GB Crucial_CT240M500SSD1 ssd, 500GB WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0, 1.5TB ST1500DM003-9YN16G, Geforce gtx 950, Windows 10 Pro 64bit
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  3. spunk
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    Here are some suggestions: Internal drive wrongly shown as removable - Windows 10 Forums
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  4. mikee286
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    spunk said:
    Here are some suggestions: Internal drive wrongly shown as removable - Windows 10 Forums
    Tried checking write caching in device manager, it was enabled
    looked in bios for hot swap or hot plug setting, it was disabled
    I also installed all the drivers from the motherboard driver disk to see if there were drivers for the sata controller that would fix the issue, no luck there either.
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  6. spunk
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    Try Updating the Bios
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  7. mikee286
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    spunk said:
    Try Updating the Bios
    did that yesterday but that was before I added the drives do I don't know if the issue would have been there before the update
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