External drive shows as internal


  1. qtrim
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    External drive shows as internal


    I have a Rosewill RX-DU100 Sata drive dock. Whenever I plug a HD into it on any of my W7 Pc's, it shows up as an internal drive. That's great for me as I use Carbonite and they only backup internal drives. I was wondering why W7 sees it as an internal and I could fool Windows into thinking other drives were internal as well?
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  3. Maguscreed
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    If you are connecting using the eSATA connection and not a usb that would basically explain it away.
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  4. qtrim
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    It's using USB as the interface.
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  6. DeaconFrost
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    In that case, how are you determining that the drive is showing as internal?
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  7. qtrim
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    It shows up under "hard disk drives" and not under "removable storage"
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