taskbar icon lets me eject the C drive?

[giantbucket]

ok, this is weird. win8.1 on the bottom right there's the set of task icons. y'all know the one that you use to eject your usb sticks? well, that same one is also listing every sata-connected hard drive in my computer, including the c: drive. i probably don't want to eject it.

any idea how i can remove the internal drives from that list? i really don't want to one day mistakenly remove c: and d: and every other drive that isn't removable.

 

[Illuminations]

I seem to remember that my old F2A85-M LE motherboard did the same thing. The way I solved it, was to change the SATA port on which the drive was located on the motherboard.

However, I suppose this is only a walkaround to the issue. It's probably a BIOS setting. What motherboard do you use?

Good Luck!
Axel.

 

[giantbucket]

it's an ASRock Z77 Extreme3, and every onboard SATA port is used for all my drives. i have a 4-port expansion card that goes to my hot-swap bays (which are currently empty anyways, but they're part of the HAF XB EVO chassis).

i never really noticed it, so i'm not sure if this is a new "feature" or been like that for a year. i only reboot on weekends so between now and then, maybe there's a non-BIOS solution?

 

[Mattios]

I've read about AHCI problems - see this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/windows-7-allows-me-to-eject-the-c-drive.454836/ specifically quite far down.

 

[Illuminations]

Yes, common disk-errors could also be causing this.
Different settings for different types of harddrives or SSD's could be the answer. I swapped a HDD for a SSD in another build once, and I got similar AHCI-issues as described above.

It's probably just a setting in BIOS, I would imagine.

Good Luck!
Axel.

 

[TechyInAZ]

I've seen windows do this a number of times when the hard drive/ssd is connected to the 2nd SATA controller on a mobo. Make sure you have the SSD/HDD in the default/1st SATA controller to get rid of this issue (look in your manual for more info).

The reason why there are 2 separate controllers on the higher end motherboards is because the intel/AMD chipset might not have enough SATA ports for an enthusiast/power user. (This was especially more popular with older X38 and X48 chipsets.) So to solve the problem, the motherboard manufacturers would add an additional SATA controller with an extra 2-6 (correct me if i'm wrong) SATA ports.

Don't be worried about accidentally disconnecting it, because when you press the disconnect button windows will say it can't disconnect because the connection is busy.

 

[giantbucket]

hmm, i'll have to check the AHCI / RAID mode it's in over the weekend. pretty sure i put the OS drive into the 1st / 6Gb port, since i think the other 4 are 3Gb ports.

i guess if i try to eject the C: drive it would be smart enough not to do it, but i also have 4 other non-system drives listed (movies, docs, etc), which is a "problem" since i have to look through the list and figure out which is internal and which is the usb device that i actually DO want to eject. would be nice if all internal sata drives were not on the list, and only usb-connected stuff is on the list since the usb stuff actually IS ejectable.