Marking a drive as non-hotswap device

galton1

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I am using HotSwap!.exe Version 5.0.0.0 to dismount my external esata drive, this works very well, however in the menu for the drives to disconnect also appears one of my internal drives.

The author, Kazuyuki Nakayama, mention this on his website:

"HotSwap! cannot distinguish the drive whether internal or external from the information available from Windows. If you don't want the drive to appear in the drive listing menu, you can do so by marking the drive as non-hotswap device."

but does not say how to do that, and this is my question:

How do I mark my internal drive non-hotswhap?

System is Asus P5B Deluxe, Jmicron JBM363 controller for external drives
ICH8R for internal drives

Thank you.
 

galton1

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Problem solved!

Thank you all.

I was able to contact the author, it is quite very simple and built in the software.

To set an internal drive as non-swap:
Hold down the [Ctrl] key [Left Click] the icon in the tray and a menu comes up where
we can choose which drive to mark as non hot-swap.