Safely eject question

PSCO2007 said:

Britton30 said:

It may be because the drive in question is attached via the Marvell SATA ports. Check your BIOS to see if the port is set as a Hot Swap, if so, change it to Disabled.

Thanks for reply,

My MOBO - Asus p8z77-v, doesn't have that specification and this strange inclusion in "safely remove" is a little confusing.

Britton I have exactly the same mobo too where do I check in the BIOS because it has got me wondering why I have an option??

Well, I'm confused to then. Is this drive in the hot swap bay or not?
Here is a snip from your manual showing the Hot Plug(SWAP) option, Advanced/SATA configuration.

Britton30 said:

Well, I'm confused to then. Is this drive in the hot swap bay or not?
Here is a snip from your manual showing the Hot Plug(SWAP) option, Advanced/SATA configuration.

Hmm I'll go check mine and do that CPU too:)

Here's a copy of your manual PSC02007.
FileSwap.com : E7074_P8Z77-V.pdf download free

PSCO2007 said:

I've got an hdd in a hot swap bay and,of course it shows in "safely remove hardware."

But it also lists an internal hdd.

OK, first confusion:
The st31000526sv is a Seagate part number. Probably an external drive.
Western Digital drives start with WDC. So I think you are talking about 2 different hard drives here.

The symptom of internal hard drives showing up as removable is usually caused when you are using the generic AHCI driver that is supplied by Windows 7 Installation. This is a very basic driver, just enough to get systems up and running.
The symptom is usually solved by installing the motherboard manufacturer's dedicated AHCI driver. This should be available in the Downloads section for your motherboard.

The symptom can also be solved by installing the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver (IRST). But you must be sure to use the correct IRST for your system. This is usually also included in the Downloads page.

We can see better what is going on with your hard disks if you can post a screenshot of your Disk Management Window, expanded so all information is visible.

Correction:

If you are talking about this swappable HDD bay here:
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Then everything is normal. An internal drive plugged into that external bay is for all intents and purposes an external drive, and Windows is reporting everything correctly.

My above statements apply only to internal HDDs that are installed internally to the motherboard's SATA ports which can or cannot be set to be hot swappable in the UEFI bios.

Happy to be of assistance and that you've figured it out. :)