After reformatting my HDD, what bios settings must i put in my BIOS? I am using an ASUS mobo with an nforce4 chipset and after reformatting, my sata HDD appears as a removable hardware. Can i put RAID on it?
not sure about RAID but I had the same problem with the ejectability. on my bios I had to disable HDDSMART (whatever that is) and the eject icon went away
What mobo are u using?
gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P
maybe it will be named something else
maybe it will be named something else
No, its called HDD S.M.A.R.T for everyone afaik.
Yes, it is for hot-swappable drives, and the reason it shows up in Safely Remove Hardware was so you can hot-swap. Somehow I couldn't put two and two together on that one until now
As for the BIOS setting, both SATA RAID and S.M.A.R.T. are usually under Integrated Peripherals.
Yes, it is for hot-swappable drives, and the reason it shows up in Safely Remove Hardware was so you can hot-swap. Somehow I couldn't put two and two together on that one until now
As for the BIOS setting, both SATA RAID and S.M.A.R.T. are usually under Integrated Peripherals.
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
Why would you want it to go away? It's a good thing. It's really handy to be able to plug in hard drives and pull them out while your system is turned on.deepblade_42 wrote:
not sure about RAID but I had the same problem with the ejectability. on my bios I had to disable HDDSMART (whatever that is) and the eject icon went away
It's supposed to appear as a removable drive. The only reason to stop it from doing so would be in an environment where some idiot might remove their system disk - although I'm not even sure it would let you, not something I'm keen on trying either.
You don't need to do any BIOS settings. It should appear as removable, that's normal. Can you rut RAID on a single HDD? NO. Although you could turn it into a JBOD array, but there would be no point. You don't put RAID on a HDD, you configure a number of drives in an array.Ayumiz wrote:
After reformatting my HDD, what bios settings must i put in my BIOS? I am using an ASUS mobo with an nforce4 chipset and after reformatting, my sata HDD appears as a removable hardware. Can i put RAID on it?
Not when its your system drive.Bertster7 wrote:
Why would you want it to go away? It's a good thing. It's really handy to be able to plug in hard drives and pull them out while your system is turned on.deepblade_42 wrote:
not sure about RAID but I had the same problem with the ejectability. on my bios I had to disable HDDSMART (whatever that is) and the eject icon went away
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
Oh i see, but i have a question though, before i reformatted, the guy whom i bought my computer from, installed the drivers for me and i didnt see any removable icon on my systray, any ideas what did he do? Did he add something to the registry?
Did you read this bit?Cheez wrote:
Not when its your system drive.Bertster7 wrote:
Why would you want it to go away? It's a good thing. It's really handy to be able to plug in hard drives and pull them out while your system is turned on.deepblade_42 wrote:
not sure about RAID but I had the same problem with the ejectability. on my bios I had to disable HDDSMART (whatever that is) and the eject icon went away
Bertster7 wrote:
It's supposed to appear as a removable drive. The only reason to stop it from doing so would be in an environment where some idiot might remove their system disk - although I'm not even sure it would let you, not something I'm keen on trying either.
Wall of text syndrome.Bertster7 wrote:
Did you read this bit?Cheez wrote:
Not when its your system drive.Bertster7 wrote:
Why would you want it to go away? It's a good thing. It's really handy to be able to plug in hard drives and pull them out while your system is turned on.Bertster7 wrote:
It's supposed to appear as a removable drive. The only reason to stop it from doing so would be in an environment where some idiot might remove their system disk - although I'm not even sure it would let you, not something I'm keen on trying either.
So really its utterly useless, no?
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
Yeah i read it, but how are u gonna plug out the sata connectors without removing the case i wonder? lolBertster7 wrote:
Did you read this bit?Cheez wrote:
Not when its your system drive.Bertster7 wrote:
Why would you want it to go away? It's a good thing. It's really handy to be able to plug in hard drives and pull them out while your system is turned on.Bertster7 wrote:
It's supposed to appear as a removable drive. The only reason to stop it from doing so would be in an environment where some idiot might remove their system disk - although I'm not even sure it would let you, not something I'm keen on trying either.
What are you talking about?Ayumiz wrote:
Yeah i read it, but how are u gonna plug out the sata connectors without removing the case i wonder? lolBertster7 wrote:
Did you read this bit?Cheez wrote:
Not when its your system drive.Bertster7 wrote:
It's supposed to appear as a removable drive. The only reason to stop it from doing so would be in an environment where some idiot might remove their system disk - although I'm not even sure it would let you, not something I'm keen on trying either.
You just open the case and pull them out. Or use eSATA ports. I do it regularly. Sometimes as often as 5-10 times a day. It's extremely handy.
I can't see turning off SMART having any impact wither. SMART just tells you if your drive is about to break (basically) and makes it go slower. I would expect that you don't have SMART turned on anyway, because it's a bit lame.
If you really want to do it you can use a registry tweak.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata
Create a DWORD here, call it DisableRemovable, set its value to 1.
Then it should disappear - but that'll be completely gone. You won't be able to safely remove USB devices etc.
If you want it back, type:
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL HotPlug.dll
into Run on the Start Menu.
Or if you want it back on a more permanent basis, you can just change the 1 to a 0.
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NO. It's used for Hotswapping, it's very handy.Cheez wrote:
Wall of text syndrome.Bertster7 wrote:
Did you read this bit?Cheez wrote:
Not when its your system drive.Bertster7 wrote:
It's supposed to appear as a removable drive. The only reason to stop it from doing so would be in an environment where some idiot might remove their system disk - although I'm not even sure it would let you, not something I'm keen on trying either.
So really its utterly useless, no?
Come to think of it, could it be i didnt install my sata drivers?
No. It couldn't. Unless you specific SATA controller has some associated software that hides the safely remove hardware icon.Ayumiz wrote:
Come to think of it, could it be i didnt install my sata drivers?
I've told you a way of getting rid of it. Just do that if it bothers you so much.
I just leave it there.