Safely remove hardware

[doubledragon5]

This icon appears in my taskbar, and can't figure how to get rid of it.. It shows both of my hd as the items to remove.. I naturally don't want them removed, so how to get rid of that icon in the taskbar thanks.....

[mbiggs]

Yeah - I want to know too - lol!

[peekaboo]

you can choose to always hide it (if you have "hide inactive icons" checked).
i had it appear when i installed the motherboard driver. it asked me if i wanted to replace the hard drive drivers (or something like that) with the nvidia ones, and i said yes.

on my next windows installation, i chose no and it's gone.

[Kareeser]

I believe the reason that icon is there is because SATA Drives are designed to be hot swappable. (At least, that's what I hear.)

If you have IDE drives, then, no dice... and of course, it wouldn't be very smart to unplug your system drive with the OS running...

[Alfie]

If you have sata drives and they're connected via sata power connectors,the drives are hot swappable,is this on a VIA motherboard?
If it is and you don't intend to use it,go to add/remove programs and I believe it's listed as Via platform drive,other systems may be similar.

[doubledragon5]

Thanks for the response. I have two sata drives, funn thing this is the frist time since I installed those drive (5 months)ago now it want to appear...:)

[gilera]

You might like to use this, you can put an icon on desktop that will hide it, but you have to do it each boot. I would like to find a permanent way of keeping it out of view. Perhaps someone can make this file do it.6613

[toomyg]

I don't want to be a "Stick in the mud" but what does it hurt to just leave the icon there?