[Atticus5783]

I installed my new hard drive and it comes up as a removable drive in XP Pro. Everything works just fine but its just strange. Any ideas? Wondering if it could be a bios thing or what.

 

[xms]

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Originally Posted by Atticus5783 I installed my new hard drive and it comes up as a removable drive in XP Pro. Everything works just fine but its just strange. Any ideas?

Wierd...have you tried removing it from Device Manager and allowing windows to redetect it to see if it makes any difference?

What kind of drive is it IDE/SATA....?

 

[Atticus5783]

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Originally Posted by xms Wierd...have you tried removing it from Device Manager and allowing windows to redetect it to see if it makes any difference? What kind of drive is it IDE/SATA....?

Havent tried that it my harddrive with XP installed on it so im sort of "ify" to remove it. Its a Hitachi SATA 80gig HD

 

[Kittani]

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Originally Posted by Atticus5783 Havent tried that it my harddrive with XP installed on it so im sort of "ify" to remove it. Its a Hitachi SATA 80gig HD

do you have it set up as a raid drive by mistake in the BIOS? I know my RAID controller will report SATA drives as hot-swappable to windows incorrectly. (hence the removable tag in XP)

 

[Evil XP2400]

My SATA WD80gb reports as removable too... I dont know why, and it doesnt really bother me because it works perfect and I've tested with HD tach and Seek time and all that is in check with the specs of the drive.

Also to make it my primary boot I have to set the bios to boot from removable.

 

[Atticus5783]

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Originally Posted by Evil XP2400 My SATA WD80gb reports as removable too... I dont know why, and it doesnt really bother me because it works perfect and I've tested with HD tach and Seek time and all that is in check with the specs of the drive. Also to make it my primary boot I have to set the bios to boot from removable.

See in bios I have it set to boot from HD but it works fine just wierd lol oh well