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[SOLVED] Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

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krishnandu.sarkar
krishnandu.sarkar Original post #1
Nov 21, 2011 at 12:31 AM
Hey guys, just figured out that, under Safely Remove Drive, HDD is an option there.

*i.imgur.com/O5nch.jpg

Isn't it odd??

Yet I didn't try to remove that. I'll do that and see what happens before shutting down today.
nims11
nims11 #2
Nov 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM
Re: Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

RAID?
coderunknown
coderunknown #3
Nov 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM
Re: Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

go to BIOS & turn the HDD option to Native IDE. HDD won't be shown under safely remove option.
mithun_mrg
mithun_mrg #4
Nov 21, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Re: Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

that's due to Raid/achi(HDD hot swap feature) i think disabling it to native ide will cost performance
krishnandu.sarkar
krishnandu.sarkar #5
Nov 21, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Re: Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

Thanks. Got it. :)

So what do you guys suggest?? Should I change it to native IDE??

If it compromise on performance I'd prefer to leave it this way only.

BTW I tried removing the drive, and it says the drive is being used. So I don't see any problem here(I mean if I click on that while clicking on pen drive by mistake)
clmlbx
clmlbx #6
Nov 21, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Re: Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

I don't think their is any problem in it.. I got same thing . even my DVD Rom show up with HDD..
krishnandu.sarkar
krishnandu.sarkar #7
Nov 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Re: Safely Remove Drive option in Win 7 64bit allowing to remove HDD

Hmm. Ok, thanks, in that case lets leave it as it is :)